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TIL that caffeine can affect your sensation of pain

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5xmR TIL, in 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town was murdered in broad daylight when 46 townspeople rose up against him, in an act of vigilante justice. No charges were ever filed despite their being 30 - 40 witness to the shooting.
5YAKD TIL Eric Clapton wrote "Wonderful Tonight" to his wife because they were trying to go out one night and after trying on so many outfits, he told her “You look wonderful. Can we go now?”
vPR7K TIL about the Cerutti Mastodon Site, a paleontological & possible archeological site where broken mastodon bones with cobblestones showing wear & impact marks among the otherwise fine-grain sands were found. One theory suggests this to be evidence for an earlier human migration to North America.
0wKKL TIL that parts of Anne Frank's diary were censored because some of the entries described her vagina.
7rQPx TIL the name "California" comes from a 16th century romance novel about a mythical island populated solely by black women warriors armed with gold weapons, ruled by a Queen named Calafia.