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TIL Professionals who walk over hot coals and broken glass have confirmed that walking over Lego bricks is more painful

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grXEL TIl that curly hair gave early humans an evolutionary advantage and made our brains bigger
yVovw TIL That 68 % of The World's Population Has Lactose Intolerance
x6lxB TIL General Motors created an electric car in the 90s to comply with California clean air regulations, after it proved far more popular than expected they shut down the program and against the protests of their customers reclaimed all the existing EVs and crushed them and buried them in the desert.
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