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

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kJgdm TIL that there are multiple 3d-printers (including one for metal) on the International Space Station to reduce the need for resupply.
lo9wa TIL: Before 1984 Australia's national Anthem was "God save the Queen"
DQdZj TIL about Albert Severin Roche, a distinguished French soldier who was found sleeping during duty and sentenced to death for it. A messenger arrived right before his execution and told the true story: Albert had crawled 10 hours under fire to rescue his captain and then collapsed from exhaustion.
eyo5 TIL that in order to prove that the bacteria H. pylori could cause stomach ulcers, an Australian doctor named Barry J. Marshall drank a culture of H. pylori, developed an ulcer, and successfully treated it with antibiotics. He won a Nobel Prize for it in 2005.
ErW TIL that sometime around 2000, the child labor laws changed in the UK in order to film the movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone”