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TIL that alcohol activates the same receptors that respond to heat, and does so better than actual heat. Thats why getting alcohol in a cut hurts so damn bad.

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ADmgn TIL that during a Cincinnati Reds game in 1935 a local stripper jumped onto the field, grabbed a baseball bat, and dared the pitcher to throw her something. He did, and she grounded to first base. She remains the only woman to play in a Major League Baseball game.
DQpyV TIL the reason why it's called upper and lower case letters is because when Gutenberg created his printing press the letter blocks were kept in wooden cases and the small letters were stored below the capital letters, ergo; lower case letters🤯
V61B TIL that Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning script, “Midnight in Paris,” began as just a title he liked for a film. So, rather than coming up with a title for a written film, he wrote the film only after coming up with the title; it took several months for the film’s idea to come to him and fit the title.
gMDEb TIL that Lincoln loved cats so much that he once fed them from the table during a formal White House dinner. When his wife told him that it was “shameful in front of their guests,” he replied “If the gold fork was good enough for former President James Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby.”
ZlwQ TIL That there’s a subculture of neo-nazi’s hipsters. They’re called “Nipsters”.