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TIL 90s dance club anthem 'Insomnia' by Faithless was inspired after Maxi Jazz had dental surgery and was up all night with pain. He wrote the lyrics in 20 minutes and laid down the vocal track in 25 minutes. The song is unique in that the main keyboard riff does not appear until nearly the end.

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W7w6L TIL: Researchers found in 2021 after an experiment with red haired mice given the MC1R gene that redheads experience pain differently having higher pain tolerances. The MC1R gene produces more pheomelanin which causes freckles, heat sensitivity, red hair, and suppresses pain receptors.
R5pMl TIL, the "Mayor"/owner of Hell, Michigan was shot in Vietnam, mistaken for dead and put in a body bag, even though he was still alive.
VMboB TIL about "Leonardo da Toenail", a man who went about the University of Southern California surreptitiously painting women's toenails as they studied in the library in the 1980s. Eventually a suspect was caught with 15 bottles of nail polish on him but disappeared before his hearing.
4XkLw TIL about Robert Carey, who took a two day horse ride to Scotland against orders on the death of Elizabeth I to inform her heir of the news so he could get himself a good job with him.
wooaP TIL all of Oklahoma's "Unassigned Lands" were settled in one day. At high noon on April 22, 1889, approx. 50k settlers lined up, and a starting gunshot was fired. They raced chaotically to claim the lands (taken back from Indigenous tribes), and by the end of the day, nearly 2M acres were claimed