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TIL of the International Hair Freezing Contest, a sculpted hair competition held at a resort in the Takhini Hot Springs, Canada. The annual competition involves participants sitting in a hot spring and sculpting their wet hair in cold temperatures. The first place prize is $700 dollars.

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mxQMR TIL That the book 'Where the Wild Things Are' created controversy when it was first published because many parents and people thought that the wild things looked too scary for children
mx4Ax TIL about the culture of suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge; in a study of survivors--after 26 years--over 90% polled were still alive or had died of natural causes; nearly every survivor says they regretted jumping immediately
GboN TIL when the Soviet Union launched the 1st satellite (Sputnik) into space in 1957, the event created such a profound public shock in the US that, in less than a year, congress had increased education funding six-fold and Eisenhower had signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act - creating NASA.
Z8EDG TIL of Anandibai Joshi, the first female doctor from India. She was also the first woman in India to complete her studies in western medicine from the United States.
GAM0Q TIL blowflies repeatedly "puke" a droplet of liquid out of their body and suck it back in to cool themselves via evaporation