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TIL Ballet dancers have a significantly higher pain tolerance and pain threshold than non-dancers because of their greater exposure to physical training

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mx7EY TIL that India is called Hindustan in Persian, technically making it part of the stan group in central Asia.
pVdN TIL: That the Parrotfish eats dead coral, but since it has no stomach, their meals pass straight through the long intestine, exploding in a cloud of sand out the backdoor. Larger parrotfish are like sand factories, producing as much as 840 pounds of sand per year.
78oxp TIL; The price of a Coca-Cola was 5 cents - for over 70 years.
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QN0mX TIL - Wayne Gretzky went undrafted