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TIL the German government declines to consider Scientology as a religion.

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KOwVE TIL it's not hard alcohol itself that's burning your throat. Instead, the ethanol in the liquid is making your throat's VR1 heat receptors more sensitive, prompting them to perceive your own body temperature as hot.
Y7BvP TIL Slow Loris’ have a venomous bite that causes necrosis (flesh rotting)
loRB7 TIL Roy Cleveland Sullivan, nicknamed the "Human Lighting Rod," was struck by lightening on 7 different occasion between 1942 and 1977 and survived every strike
7rKAp TIL of the New Mexico whiptail lizard, an all-female species that originated from hybridization. It reproduces without males through parthenogenesis and manages to escape extinction because of a constant stock of new hybrids. They even have female to female courtship to stimulate ovulation!
VMkNZ TIL Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston are the largest US cities with a shrinking population, all of them having peaked in 1950.