TIL: Short Sleeper Syndrome is a gene mutation discovered by the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. They can function normally with less than 6 hours of sleep and never need to "recover" from lack of sleep as opposed to people who purposefully limit sleep. The mutation was given to mice and worked. [source, comments]

TIL the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco flushed decorative algae into the Mediterranean Sea, creating an invasive patch of algae that has now spread over 190km of coast. [source, comments]

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https://www.srf.ch/news/international/palais-des-nations-lichterloeschen-bei-der-uno-in-genf

TIL 90% of the Earth's population live in the Northern Hemisphere [source, comments]

"Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole world through the relation of supply and demand—a relation which, as an English economist says, hovers over the earth like the fate of the ancients, and with invisible hand allots fortune and misfortune to men, sets up empires and overthrows empires, causes nations to rise and to disappear—while with the abolition of the basis of private property, with the communistic regulation of production (and implicit in this, the destruction of the alien relation between men and what they themselves produce), the power of the relation of supply and demand is dissolved into nothing, and men get exchange, production, the mode of their mutual relation, under their own control again?"

— Karl Marx

"White people were, and are, astounded by the Holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But I very much doubt whether Black people were astounded."

— James Baldwin