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TIL there's a holiday called 'Buy Nothing Day' an international day of protest against consumerism & 'Black Friday.' Participants wander around shopping malls or other consumer havens with a blank stare.

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v14j8 TIL that British WWII General, Bernard Montgomery, first courted a woman when he was in his late thirties in 1925. His approach to romance included "drawing diagrams in the sand of how he would deploy his tanks and infantry in a future war." Said young woman declined his proposal for marriage.
nVwd TIL there is a shade of pink that, when stared at for a short period of time, drastically reduces strength, so much so that US colleges used to paint opposing team’s locker rooms with it.
d8Oe7 TIL the human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive.
wyW6 TIL of “resiniferatoxin”, a naturally occurring chemical that is 7273 times hotter than any pepper in the world, and 1000 times hotter than pure capsaisin. It books in at 16 trillion Scoville units
5Y7ND TIL Kleptothermy (heat-stealing) is observed in some male Canadian red sided garter snakes that mimic females by producing female-like pheromones when they emerge from hibernation so that other males mistakenly attempt to mate with them, thus transferring heat to them.