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elleng

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Wed Jan 19, 2022, 01:26 AM Jan 2022

The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps' [View all]

For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep?

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