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TIL that redheads need more anesthesia during surgery and produce their own vitamin D.

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JYwkm TIL of Black Wednesday, the first Wednesday of every August when the new cohort of junior doctors begin working in the NHS after graduating medical school, where patients are about 6% more likely to die than on other days
wewP TIL that if you roll your mouse over the pronunciation text in wikipedia, it tells you in plain english how to pronounce the word (Try it here over ɒziˈmændiəs)
4X6Z5 TIL one of the greatest generals Khalid ibn Al-Walid would fight opposing leaders in a 1v1 death match before battle. He remains undefeated in over a 100 battles.
MoJ7 TIL As a kid, Michio Kaku got 400 pounds of transformer steel and 44 miles of copper wire, to create a 6 kilowatt, 10,000 gauss magnetic field on his high school football field. He created a particle accelerator to find antimatter.
R486 TIL pavement damage is proportional to the fourth power of the vehicle weight, so a 9-ton truck does over 3000 times the road damage of a 1-ton car.