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TIL atomic bomb testing has changed our biology

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yQ1ov TIL that while same-sex marriage is legal federally in the U.S., it is still not legal on a number of native reservations.
VMyY4 TIL A monk named Thích Quảng Đức intentionally lit himself on fire to send a message to the corrupt leader Ngo Dihn Diem of Vietnam which would go on to fuel a revolution that some say lead into the Vietnam War.
xONw TIL according to a lawsuit filed against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more
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.
Oo894 TIL the much of the NYC subway system's control signals are still based on hundred year old technology. When parts fail, they must be scavenged from scrapped parts or custom made at great expense.