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TIL Gingers don’t feel pain to the same degree that everyone else does. Redheads are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, but are more sensitive to thermal pain.

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XEYgD TIL the phrase "Bucket List" originated with the 2007 film "The Bucket List," and there have been no written examples that suggest it was in use before then.
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