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TIL that red headed people are uniquely able to produce vitamin D without direct sunlight

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ynZv TIL that there has only been one confirmed case of a person being hit by a meteor. Ann Hodges was napping on the couch when the rock broke through her ceiling, bounced off her radio and bruised her upper thigh.
P14Ow TIL of Drapetomania, a falsely proposed mental illness based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape
4XanJ TIL: In 1610 Galileo used a telescope to discover that Venus goes through phases similar to the Moon, a revolutionary observation that “ultimately helped to deliver a deathblow to the long-held concept of an Earth-centered universe.”
gM9Q8 TIL about eight-year-old Christian McPhilamy. He endured bullying as a result of him deciding to grow his hair out long in order to donate it to kids who lost their hair as a result of cancer.
grPML TIL that Newfoundland is the only place outside of Ireland that has an indigenous Irish language name- Talamh an Éisc, named by the many Irish fishermen who landed there in the 18th century