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TIL a bear was the first living being to survive a supersonic ejection

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epA9J TIL: Indians used to burn widows till the British colonized them.
PX8E TIL 15 girls perished in a school fire in Saudi Arabia because morality police outside would not let them exit because they weren’t wearing a veil.
4X4Og TIL "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam", an underground cartoon short depicting Mickey Mouse being killed during the Vietnam War, was directed by Whitney Lee Savage, father of the Mythbuster Adam Savage.
yQ1e TIL that Freddie Mercury never had his teeth fixed because he was afraid it would change the sound of his singing
6EeRJ in terms of their brain chemistry, introverts have a lower threshold of dopamine sensitivity than extroverts (dopamine is a chemical associated with reward because it makes us feel good). Essentially, the lower your dopamine threshold, the more easily stimulated you are.