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TIL the brain cannot feel pain because it doesn't have pain receptors called nociceptors. Headaches come from nociceptors in the protective tissue between the brain and the skull.

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JYWLk TIL that child actor Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan and other Disney classics) is buried as an unknown vagrant in a mass grave on Hart island (NYC), and was only identified after his mother, who thought he was still alive, matched his fingerprints to a burial record.
7rDbx TIL that Moby Dick was based on albino Sperm Whale nicknamed Mocha Dick
KLR9 TIL that William Edmondson, the son of freed slaves, took up sculpting at age 55 after seeing a vision from God. He used found materials and made his own tools out of railroad spikes. Eight years later he was the first Black artist to have a one-man show at MoMA.
JYxA8 TIL that in terms of the average number of steps required to link actors to other actors, Kevin Bacon is only the 543rd ranked actor in Hollywood history. The actors with the lowest average number of steps are Christopher Lee, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, and Donald Sutherland
GDJ4 TIL a man died in a helmet law protest while not wearing a helmet when he crashed his motorcycle. Medical experts say he would have survived if he had a helmet on during the accident.