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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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ZXyp TIL that the color of our Sun is white, its our atmosphere that makes it look yellow.
VMxak TIL the outermost region of the Sun’s atmosphere, consisting of plasma (hot ionized gas), is called the “corona.” It has a temperature of approximately two million kelvins and an extremely low density. The corona continually varies in size and shape as it is affected by the Sun’s magnetic field.
nrjB TIL that Hitler planned to reduce the “non-German population” in occupied countries by “persuading them that vaccination and the like are really most dangerous”.
g97D TIL, 75% of all suicide attempts are by self-poisoning, a method that is often thwarted because the drug is nonlethal or is used at a nonlethal dosage. These people survive 97% of the time.
X6lR TIL-The Declaration of Independence spent World War II in Fort Knox placed in a box and sealed with lead.