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TIL that the entomologist Justin O. Schmidt created the ''Schmidt sting pain index''. This scale rates the pain from stings of ants, wasps and bees. While getting stung by a warrior wasp, he told to himself: ''Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?''.

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P1lrJ TIL There are no Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in Buffalo
7rokL TIL Keanu Reeves was initially offered Val Kilmer's role in the 1995 film Heat. He turned it down to play Hamlet in a 789 seat theatre in Manitoba.
WVo4 TIL Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana has a graduation rate of only 4%
WwV8 TIL men’s hesitance towards promiscuous women (in considering a meaningful relationship) is not based on the woman’s previous sexual behavior itself, but on the fear of being fooled and taken advantage of.
6EEj7 Conrad Heyer, a Revolutionary War veteran, was the earliest-born American to ever be photographed and he was photographed in 1852 at the age of 103! He’s also “the only U.S. veteran to be photographed who crossed the Delaware River alongside George Washington in December 1776”.