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TIL Men who do not have chest hair are deficient in a particular androgen or male hormones

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gMDAW TIL Commercial bread contains an ingredient derived from human hair: l-cysteine
yV4NX TIL that Goerge Wendt, who played Norm on the TV show Cheers, was expelled from Notre Dame for a 0.00 GPA
R50Aj TIL in 1962 researchers from the University of Oklahoma injected 297 mg of LSD, which is nearly three thousand times the human recreational dose, into "Tusko", an Indian elephant at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Within five minutes he collapsed and died one hour and forty minutes later.
d8dZr TIL in 1830, the UK grew increasingly worried about a war starting between France and the Netherlands. To solve this problem, a 'buffer' country was formed in between them to ease tensions: Belgium.
aww6L TIL that Yellowstone National Park contains 1/2 of the world's documented geothermal features and 2/3 of the world's geyers - beating both Iceland and Russia.