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TIL that the reason crystals and rocks feel cold to the touch is that they have "high thermal inertia". In other words, a rock that sits on a table in a 24°C room will want to take in heat from our 36.8°C bodies,.. and that feels cold. Once it has gained that 12.8°C it does not feel cold any more.

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4XwZJ TIL the actor playing Hedorah the Smog Monster in a 1971 Godzilla film came down with appendicitis. Doctors were forced to perform surgery while he was still wearing the monster suit due to the length of time it took to take off. During the operation he learned that painkillers had no effect on him.
D1JRD Til that Frank Zappa was once pushed off stage by a jealous fan almost killing him and resulting in permanently lowering his voice
KJjB TIL Johnny Depp’s first performance as Jack Sparrow earned him an Academy Award nomination. Roger Ebert himself reviewed: “There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie.”
aXy9 TIL that Lord Collingwood, Nelson’s second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, would carry a pocket full of acorns on walks in the countryside, planting them as he went so the ‘Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.’
epwLg TIL Pedro Rodrigues Filho, one of Brazil's most prolific killers. Having killed between 71-100+ criminals as a vigilante (including his father), he was given a the maximum sentence in Brazil of 30 years. Filho now has a successful YouTube career with 250k subs