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TIL redheads are more sensitive to pain because of a mutation in a gene that affects hair color and require, on average, about 20 percent more general anesthesia than people with dark hair or blond coloring.

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5VBQp TIL a wealthy building contractor who stormed the Bastille had miniature Bastilles made from the prison walls and sent all around France.
NgeN TIL JP Morgan bailed out the US Government in 1895
8wJ8 TIL that Orson Wells’ famous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds (which aired 75 years ago today) actually caused almost none of the public panic for which it became famous; newspapers’ over-reporting of the incident was actually an attempt to discredit radio as a news source
vPd6x TIL about Su Kong Tai Djin, the Kung-Fu Werewolf, a Shaolin monk born in 1849 with Hypertrichosis (a condition causing full body hair growth). Abandoned in a forest by his parents, he was raised by Shaolin monks. He practiced by fighting bears and defended the coast from pirates.
Y7GLW TIL that the official residence of the Canadian Prime Minister has been unoccupied since 2015, while crews work to renovate the building and remove rodents, asbestos, and obsolete mechanical/electrical/heating systems.