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TIL Red heads require 20% more anaesthesia then normal during surgery

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KO0A9 TIL that Germans make up the largest ancestry group in the US followed by African Americans, Irish, Mexican and English. The German language was for a time the second most commonly spoken language in the US before the stigma of "speaking the enemy's language" during the World Wars.
lbWN TIL That just under 7/8 of the land on Earth is on one half of the planet. Called “The Land Hemisphere” The other side of the Earth being “The Water Hemisphere”.
rxK1 TIL: US Customs and Border Protection wants you to know that “bolts” and “screws” are not quite the same thing. It takes this distinction VERY seriously, and has released a 21 page technical document about how to tell the difference between the two.
yQm8v TIL that the movie What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004) was produced by Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Ramtha is an alleged entity channelled by J.Z. Knight said to be over 35,000 years old and from Atlantis and Lemuria, where he was in charge of an army of over a million people.
Y766P TIL the typical loss on reselling a diamond is between 25% and 50% of its original purchase price, and even less as a percentage of appraisal value.