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TIL thieves used watermelon skin to slide ATM out of store in Colombia

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jN6gX TIL Stanley Kubrick appointed French Director Bertrand Tavernier as his publicist in France and he was asking him regularly about strange stuff like types of lamps in theaters, Tavernier resigned after 3 months and told him: As a film-maker you are a genius but as an employer you are an imbecile.
l7Gg7 TIL In 1976, the CAF in Texas sponsored an air show where a B-29 bomber piloted by Paul Tibbets, the pilot who flew the B-29 which bombed Hiroshima during World War II, reenacted the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (including a mock mushroom cloud)
OoRp1 TIL that men also have hormonal cycles albeit not to the same degree as women but testosterone rises and falls over the course of a day or multiple days and can cause similar symptoms regarding ones mood and mental health.
mxOXP Today I learned that US universities protected students from the draft during the Vietnam war by awarding higher grades. It's believed that this kicked off grade inflation in the 60s.
jGrj TIL That redheads experience more pain and require about 20% more anesthesia when going into surgery because a gene that influences their red hair color also influences pain receptors in the body.