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TIL a woman recovering from shingles had such an itchy scalp that she painlessly scratched through the skull to the brain

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b9Mvp TIL that it is fairly common for hedgehogs to eat their babies and/or reject them.
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v1JMD TIL that a Japanese company gave its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days
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