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

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aN5b TIL that as a teenager, Lou Reed’s parents made him undergo electroshock therapy 3 times a week in an attempt to cure him of his bisexuality
OJZX TIL a graduate student invented a leaf made of silk that produces oxygen.
PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
J1y54 TIL that Elphaba - the name given to the Wicked Witch of the West in the musical "Wicked" - was derived from the pronunciation of The Wizard of Oz's author L. Frank Baum: LFB, Elphaba
wo61M TIL about Oradour-sur-Glane, a French village where Nazi troops massacred its 643 inhabitants as collective punishment for Résistance activity. Women and children were burned alive in a church, while men were taken to barns, shot in the legs and set on fire as well.