This week I learned that sleep walking is an evolutionary trait gone terribly wrong, and more
Fun and interesting facts from around the web
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- Sleepwalking might be the result of a survival mechanism gone awry (Science Alert)
- Spinach leaf transformed into beating human heart tissue (National Geographic)
- The 1920s women who fought for the right to travel under their own names (Atlas Obscura)
- Chinese people mean something very different when they send you a smiley emoji (Quartz)
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