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TIL James Franco has a mutation on a gene that allows him to sleep for about half the time that we normally need

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WkMWd TIL that in 2007, three cases of perfectly preserved whisky were discovered, frozen into the ice for a beneath Shackleton’s base camp at Cape Royds. These were personally ordered by Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1907.
wL9WW TIL Chroniclers of Germanic peoples traced the ancestry of their kings back to the god Wōden (Odin). If such descents were true, Queen Elizabeth II would be a descendant of Woden, via the kings of Wessex.
oBKjo TIL that Russia gave the United States a memorial to the victims of 9/11
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