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TIL that if you have hazel, blue, or green eyes, and blonde or red hair, you have a higher chance of developing skin cancer.

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MvO0 TIL of Belphegor’s prime. A 31-digit, palindromic prime number named after the prince of Hell responsible for ingenious inventions: 1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001.
KplG TIL-Don’t be a Sucker-1947 after WW2 the US created as video to educate its citizens not to fall for similar tactics that the Nazis used to divide and conquer Germany
XEDxD TIL During the 2011 earthquake in Japan, all 184 students of Kamaishi City's Primary School survived the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami without any adult help and supervision
OGPle TIL Ted Koppel's German Jewish father was invited to England to help the war effort then imprisoned for being German
NJNN TIL a law was implemented in 1950’s Greece whereby head shaving with manual clippers was used as punishment for young people caught by police, such as teddyboys and prostitutes. Obligatory hair clipping was finally abolished in Greece in 1982.