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TIL - Empty skies after 9/11 caused a measured change in temps due to lack of jet contrails in the sky

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R7QX6 TIL that it was a common belief amongst anesthesiologists that readheads are harder to sedate. Now there are studies to show that they do indeed often require around 20% more anesthesia to sedate and have a higher tolerance to pain.
LaRr TIL that China, Bangladesh and Grenada are the only countries where the female suicide rate is higher than the male rate
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16vJW Today I learned there is a city in Romania named ‘23 August’ after the 1944 royal coup