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TIL that an entomologist called Justin Schmidt allowed plenty of venomus insects to sting him in order to record the pain intensity in what's called "Schmidt pain Scale".

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m1XLo TIL of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, which was awarded 1989-2010 in the honor of the Libyan dictator
d8yn7 TIL In Britain, drivers can be fined up to £5,000 if they are caught driving through a puddle which causes a pedestrian to be splashed.
APR4 TIL that The Strip, the thing Las Vegas is most famous for, is not actually located within the city of Las Vegas. It is in an adjacent unincorporated area of Clark County known as Paradise, Nevada.
P4Yg TIL Dove once ran a “Natural beauty” campaign which centered around “real” looking women. It turned out all of the women in this ad series had been Photoshopped.
jNnVn TIL That the U.S. has control over an island in the Indian Ocean which it got from the British who took it from Mauritius. It has a base on the island is named 'Footprint of Freedom' and the name of its camp is 'Camp Justice' while original inhabitants of the island are displaced from their homeland