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TIL Saudi Arabia beheads nearly two people per week

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yQEnV TIL Teeth are only able to experience one sensation, that being pain. When you eat or drink something too hot or too cold, or a dentist operates on your teeth, you will only experience pain because that is the only thing the nerves around your teeth respond to.
VMPM4 TIL when professional wrestler Brian Pillman was to be "fired" by the WCW as part of a wrestling storyline, he asked that he be faxed a real release form to increase the realism. Since all the proper signatures were on it, he used the document to escape his contract and wrestle in the WWE instead
VMJM4 TIL that other than humans, chimpanzees and rats are the only animals that can laugh.
Yp7Lv TIL that the finger wrinkling happening when in contact with water is triggered by an autonomic nervous response
1Y1W TIL the original PayPal team went on to create so many successful companies (SpaceX, Tesla, YouTube, LinkedIn), that they are called the PayPal Mafia