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TIL that shaving your head doesn't make the hair grow back thicker and darker. Cutting the blunt tip just looks coarser; the follicle’s growth rate and color stay the same.

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XDrE TIL directors were told to shoot John Wayne’s scenes before noon, because by afternoon he “was a mean drunk”.
R7PaQ TIL about Miklós Nyiszli, a Jewish-Hungarian inmate at Auschwitz. As a doctor by profession, he had to assist Dr. Mengele in cruel "experiments" and could in return live within a room inside Crematorium II. He survived and never again worked with a scalpel after the war.
p8bOp TIL that former Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie is considered the God of the Black Race in Rastafarianism.
gGOy TIL that simply being 7'0 or taller nets you a 17% chance of being an NBA player.
9YPXG TIL that at the Hoover dam construction the first worker death was that of J. G. Tierney and the last death was that of his son Patrick Tierney which came 14 years after the death of his father