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TIL that the first man to survive a fall off of Niagara falls in a barrel died slipping on an orange peel

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VMjdG TIL that Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s former pet Chimp, currently resides at a sanctuary for “retired” Hollywood Apes/Monkeys. Other “celebrities” include Sam from Dunston Checks in, and Bella, the 2004 Career Builder Campaign.
WOOL TIL a boy was scalped by a Sioux chief, Little Turtle, and lived to tell about it. His scalpless head was photographed 30 years later.
ZpmKB TIL that the reason mint tastes cold is that menthol activates a protein called TRPM8 in your nerve cells that normally respond to cold. It is the only food that does do. (Although capsaicin, similarly, activates a different protein, VR1, that senses heat.)
wLl7W Face shields are even better than masks and famed Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka may help you to make your own.
Zp7K4 TIL that Cluster headaches - a disorder with no known cause that affects roughly 0.05% of people per year and causes headaches regarded as the most severe pain known to medicine - received less than $2 million in research funding from the US National Institutes of Health between 1998-2013.