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TIL Redheads require more anesthesia than the average person, an average of 20% more anesthetic is required for the same effect

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gMZAD TIL in the 70’s, Dolly Parton once found a baby girl left in a basket outside of her home, with a note that read ‘My name is Jolene, my momma has left me here and she wants you to have me.’ Dolly took care of baby Jolene until children services was able to come pick her up.
p8P7b TIL Cheryl Pierson was being abused by her dad but when he threatened to abuse her sister, 9, she hired a classmate to kill him. The judge was lenient on them both. When Cheryl got out, she wrote a book & the classmate went back to prison to run their college program.
l7M0V TIL there were about 4,500 lynchings in the USA from 1883-1941 - mostly blacks in the South, and whites outside of it. This averages to 78 killings per year throughout the entire country. The population of the United States was 50-130 million from 1880-1940.
ygp8 TIL that door knobs made out of brass automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours through the oligodynamic effect
woZMY TIL Nike makes a carpet underlayment pad made from manufacturing scrap that sells exclusively at Home Depot.