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Quilotoa lemmy.ca Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-04-01
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Link: https://www.purplemotes.net/2013/09/01/origin-counting-sheep-fall-asleep/
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spicy pancake lemmy.zip janus2@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-06-27
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According to Disciplina Clericalis, a text written in early twelfth-century Spain from Islamic sources, a king every night heard stories from his storyteller.

Adding to my mental list of everyday things I take for granted that used to be a royal luxury: falling asleep to a podcast
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Quilotoa lemmy.ca Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-04-01
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spicy pancake wrote:
According to Disciplina Clericalis, a text written in early twelfth-century Spain from Islamic sources, a king every night heard stories from his storyteller. Adding to my mental list of everyday things I take for granted that used to be a royal luxury: falling asleep to a podcast

Yup. We live in one of the best times in human history.
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