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TIL two hair salons in the UK have started to include a "quiet chair" for people who don't want to engage in small talk while getting their hair cut.

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X0PkQ TIL John Quincy Adams escaped unscathed from the first fatal train accident in recorded US history. Two died & 21 were injured, including Cornelius Vanderbilt, who broke a leg.
Lkpm TIL Graham Chapman, of Monty Python fame, was a medical doctor and Cambridge graduate.
v1xWL TIL: the "legs" you see in old high speed footage of nuclear tests are a result of the explosion chasing down the wires of the support tower. The metal of the wire conducts heat faster than the surrounding air, allowing the pulses to move out ahead of the rest of the blast.
B9gL TIL that Boba Fett was originally introduced not in Episode V, but in the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday TV Special.
ANAa4 TIL about the Hoff crab. Named after David Hasslehoff, they eat microbes they farm in their chest hair.