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TIL in 1992 a youth group descended into a French cave with steel brushes to remove graffiti… and ended up partially removing 15,000 year old bison cave paintings.

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OG9e7 TIL The USA's National Broadcasting Company (NBC) helped fund a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall in 1962
Ooo4a TIL that redheads are likely more sensitive to thermal pain and are more resistant to lidocaine, a type of anaesthesia. This is caused by mutations of the melanocortin 1 receptor which is responsible for red colored hair.
bNn4 TIL: There is a program called No One Dies Alone (NODA) that pairs volunteers with terminally ill patients who have no companions or family to be with them in their final days
o8oA TIL the human brain isn’t at all “rubbery” textured.
9YvvG TIL Pennsylvania’s Seal has a reverse side, which depicts Liberty holding a wand topped by a liberty cap. In her right hand is a drawn sword. She is “trampling upon tyrrany, represented by a lion.” The entire design is encircled by the legend "Both Can't Survive.”