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World Service,2 mins

The surprising way we used to sleep

The Inquiry

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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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