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TIL Pain tolerance is reduced by sleep deprivation.

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VBYrm TIL Breakfast as a early morning meal was only started when people began to go to work. Most humans never ate in the early morning prior. It is definitely not the "most important" meal of the day.
W7pB9 TIL Elvis Presley arranged a meeting with Donna Ludwig's dad so he could tell him (Donna's dad) all about Ritchie Valens
8xP TIL that the last Great Auk, an extinct bird, seen in the British Isles was killed after it was accused of being a witch.
9r4M TIL that Winter Olympics athletes are chronically underpaid and unless they have endorsements, the amounts they earn are paltry compared to athletes in disciplines such as bowling.
nWNdo TIL that safety concerns of the Jules Rimet Trophy during WWII led Ottorino Barassi, who was FIFA vice-president at the time, to remove the trophy from a bank and hide it in a shoebox under his bed. The trophy stayed safe under Barassi’s bed until the World Cup returned after WWII in 1950 in Brazil.