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TIL that many major cities in US have a very striking racial segregation. For example, Washington DC has an almost east-west racial divide.

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WkMQ9 TIL redheads are more sensitive to pain because of a mutation in a gene that affects hair color and require, on average, about 20 percent more general anesthesia than people with dark hair or blond coloring.
v1Mm7 The biggest lightning flash on record has been identified. More than twice the size of the previous record, it spanned 709 kilometres – about the distance from London to Geneva.
QbRe TIL of Primitive Baptist Universalists, a branch of Baptists found in Appalachia known as “No Hellers” due “to their belief that Hell is actually experienced in this lifetime”.
KOKdE TIL a Canadian psychologist named Elliott Jaques coined the term "midlife crisis"
VM4BB TIL Dwayne Johnson’s First Acting Role was on ‘That 70’s Show’ in which he Played his Real-Life Father, Rocky Johnson