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TIL that 4th, 5th, and 6th degree burns exist.

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grXA4 TIL Vanna White had a miscarriage in 1992 shortly after an episode of Wheel of Fortune contained "Vanna's pregnant" as the answer to a puzzle.
VMQK8 TIL that by the time you're a year old, you've learned to ignore most distinctions among sounds that don't matter in your own language. That's why people who learn new languages later in life have special accents and cannot pronounce certain sounds.
PY0Eg TIL modern atomic clocks are so accurate that if Yellowstone were to threaten eruption, we would be capable of detecting it in advance because of the time distortion.
7ryZr TIL that French organist and composer Louis Vierne died at the organ of Notre-Dame while giving a concert. Curiously enough, it was fulfilling his life-long dream.
x6Km0 TIL that consuming too much nutmeg can alter your perception of reality