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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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l7Pga TIL an 1873 US governor, Edwin McCook, beat up a constituent at a public meeting over a cigar disagreement. He was later shot by said person 4 times but still needed to be restrained from beating him up again.
xbB5 TIL Stephen Colbert is a devout Catholic and Sunday school teacher.
Y7vAW TIL green coloured clothing was rare in Europe up until arsenic-based green dyes were invented in the late-1700s. Before that, to create green the fabric first had to be dyed yellow and then dyed again with an expensive blue dye. Results with this process were inconsistent & hard to control.
yVY7J TIL in 2019 a russian work settlement experienced a mass invasion of over 50 polar bears, leading to a state of emergency being declared by the local administrator.
yVG6p TIL Unlike the Hawaiian taught in schools, the Niʻihau dialect maintains the variation between [r] and [l], in addition to [t] and [k]. Some other pockets of speakers on Molokai and Maui have also been found to maintain the [t] variant.