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The surprising way we used to sleep
Historian, Roger Ekirch describes how before the Industrial Revolution, humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks with a period of wakefulness in the middle of the night.
(Tartini dream illustration. Created by J.Boilly published on Magasin Pittoresque, Paris 1840 / Shutterstock).
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