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TIL the human body can naturally settle into a sleep-wake cycle of up to 50 hours, when there's no day/night cycle to observe. In 1962 geologist Michel Siffre entered a darkened cave, where he planned to remain for two months tracking time assuming 1 sleep equals one day, but he was off by 2 weeks.	52311
TIL that when a cat bites you "out of the blue" or lashes out at you unprovoked it's because of something happened or something it saw outside the window even hours before. This is called redirected aggression, one of many documented types of idiopathic aggression in cats.	75
TIL that when a cat bites you "out of the blue" or lashes out at you unprovoked it might be because of something it saw outside the window even hours before. This is called redirected aggression.	1
TIL that Netflix faked a PS4 co-op gameplay scene in its series "Dark". The featured game was "The Surge", and in reality it's a strictly single-player game. Both the show and the game were produced in Germany. The show producer's approached the studio making the game (Deck13) and proposed the stunt	1
TIL the human body can naturally settle into a sleep-wake cycle of up to 50 hours, when there's no day/night cycle to observe. In 1962 geologist Michel Siffre entered a darkened cave, where he planned to remain for two months tracking time assuming 1 sleep equals one day, but he was off by 2 weeks.	1
TIL that Netflix faked a PS4 co-op gameplay scene in its series "Dark". The featured game was "The Surge", and in reality it's a strictly single-player game. Both the show and the game were produced in Germany. The show producer's approached the studio making the game (Deck13) and proposed the stunt	1
TIL Jupiter Hell, a successor to DoomRL, has peaked at 666 concurrent players on Steam when it was released in full in 2021	1

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