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TIL people with red hair may need up to 20% more anesthesia. This is because of MCR1 mutation.

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Y7LBd TIL adult cats meow only as a way to communicate with humans and not other cats.
6El98 TIL Stephen Hawking is believed to be the longest living person ever with ALS at 55 years since diagnosis. ALS can kill in months, with less than 20% living past 10 years.
M7gba TIL there was a scholarship named by a mother for her son, serial killer Harvey Glatman
8aVr4 TIL In some jurisdictions, dancers at strip clubs are only permitted to expose breasts and/or genitals when performing on a raised platform; they must be dressed before their feet touch the venue's main floor. Managers responsible for enforcing this rule communicate it as 'the floor is lava'.
VBdEB TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.