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TIL "feeling that something is wet is quite a feat because our skin does not have receptors that sense wetness"

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nWeEY TIL in WW1 British engineers spent two years digging tunnels under German lines, using them to set off 19 massive explosions simultaneously
wopB8 TIL No member of the band The Police has naturally blonde hair: they started dyeing their hair for a Wrigley's commercial.
Z8yXp TIL about the "Battle of Hayes Pond", where in 1958, fed up with recent cross burnings on their grounds, over 500 armed members of the Lumbee Tribe surrounded a KKK rally and exchanged fire with them, destroying the only light source and forcing the Klan members to flee the area.
e0B64 TIL that Generation Y is making 20% less than Baby Boomers were at the same age
dDRgE TIL that during his time as the narrator for the US version of the first four seasons of the children's TV show Thomas the Tank Engine, George Carlin spoke his lines to a teddy bear in the booth because he was nervous about performing without an audience.