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TIL the pain from scratching makes your body release the pain-fighting chemical called serotonin. That's why the more you scratch, the more you itch

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Y8J7 TIL Seth Green based Chris Griffin’s voice on the voice of serial killer Buffalo Bill from “The Silence of the Lambs,” specifically how Buffalo Bill would sound speaking through a PA system at a McDonalds.
Z8G4D TIL of 'If Day'. In 1942 Winnipeg, Manitoba simulated a Nazi German invasion and occupation of the city. It included a staged firefight, the internment of prominent politicians, the imposition of Nazi rule, and a parade. The event was a fundraiser for the war effort: over $3 million was collected.
NXwwP TIL that twelve years after publishing a book reviewing the history of political corruption in West Virginia, former West Virginia Supreme Court justice Allen Loughry was convicted in federal court of eleven counts related to corruption and sentenced to two years in prison.
yQE9e TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.
p86A TIL the Pope had to make a decree that Native Americans were “rational beings with souls” and not to be enslaved in 1537.