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8jDa TIL people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain, are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, and require larger amounts of anesthetics than people without red hair due to a mutation in their melanocortin 1 receptor.
4XbRg TIL Apollo 11 astronauts basically flung their poop in bags on the moon’s surface.
X0oKE TIL about a cheeky species of New Zealand parrot that required their own special playground be made to keep them from messing with traffic
xVRe0 TIL Brad Fiedel, when composing the now-iconic score for The Terminator, accidentally programmed his musical equipment to the unusual time signature of 13/16 instead of the more conventional 7/8. Fiedel found that he liked the "herky-jerky" "propulsiveness" of the signature and decided to keep it.
wQ6M TIL the Ibrahim Prize, an annual award given to former African heads of states who have advanced democracy and peacefully transitioned power gifts $5,000,000 plus and additional $200,000 a year after that. It has only been awarded three times since 2008.