Post * wxA8 — Curious Curator

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TIL people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain, are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, and require larger amounts of anesthetics than people without red hair due to a mutation in their melanocortin 1 receptor.

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xVkmk TIL the story of FedEx's founder, Frederick Smith, submitting his business plan as a term paper and receiving a failing grade with an admonition that it would never work, is a myth. He dimly remembers he got about a C, mostly because "it wasn't a well-thought-out paper."

BJKb TIL The first circus elephant in the United States (and possibly the first elephant brought to the US) was shot and killed by a religious fanatic who thought it was sinful for people to pay to see an animal.

Aexw TIL - Heinz ketchup has the number 57 on it just because H.J. Heinz thought it was luckier than 60 which was the number of varieties of their products at the time.

R58W1 TIL Van Morrison’s song “Brown Eyed Girl” was originally titled “Brown Skinned Girl”, but was changed to make it more palatable to radio stations at the time. It still got banned on some stations because the lyrics included the line “Making love in the green grass”

YpKxZ TIL Tilda Swinton is a direct descendant of legendary Scottish King Robert the Bruce