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Percentage of the French who think it “somewhat” or “very” possible they will one day become homeless:

Neuroscientists found that sloths sleep around nine and a half hours a day. Previous research had studied only captive sloths, who sleep on average sixteen hours a day, possibly because they are bored and depressed.

A young man who lied to Berlin police about having lived for five years in a forest was revealed to have run away from home because he disliked his internship.
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