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TIL heat is measurably more unpleasant than coldness

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1B4D TIL Chuck Norris supported California’s Prop 8 and opposes the National Day of Silence, an annual event honoring LGBT rights.
Q9XL TIL there exists a treatment for cystic fibrosis that involves actually inhaling genes to attempt to repair the disease
QLk TIL that Americans have less sex than everybody else
BrlGb TIL, Sperm whales, the biggest toothed whale on Earth, dont actually have teeth in the top jaw. They instead have sockets in the upper jaw that the bottom teeth fit neatly in to.
X6DP TIL that Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd that starred in many silent films, almost won the first Oscar for best actor but the Academy, “believed that this new idea of handing out these Oscars could possibly be damaged by the first Best Actor being a dog.”