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TIL people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain, are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, and require larger amounts of anesthetics than people without red hair due to a mutation in their melanocortin 1 receptor.

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9Ydo6 TIL Astronauts can’t cry effectively in space. Rather than gravity pulling the tears down as it does on earth, the tears congeal in their eye and sting.
VMEo4 TIL A Swedish sailor shipwrecked on an island inhabited by cannibals. He was captured and taken to a local king, whose daughter fell in love with him. He married, had nine children with her, and became the king after his father-in-law.
epnbL TIL A Student of Sheffield University, with an IQ of 126, had virtually no brain. The student had cerebral tissue less than 1mm deep.
VMnJm TIL that following their successful Billion Tree Tsunami campaign in 2017 to plant 1 billion trees, Pakistan launched the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami campaign, vowing to plant 10 billion trees in the next 5 years
erLn TIL Japanese police fire paint-balls at fleeing vehicles so that other police vehicles can see them and to identify them at a later date if they get away. The paint is Bright orange and difficult to remove.