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TIL Doctor’s assessments of pain are influenced by how attractive a patient is.

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8xGP TIL that in sweden, your car headlights have to be on at all times when driving. Even in broad daylight
8amNG TIL - The rise in popularity of chopsticks among Asian cultures can be partly attributed to Confucianism (reduced use of table knives) and to rice being more clumpy and gummy so there is less need for spoons.
kOp0g TIL that the last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II (born 1859), lived to see the rise of Hitler and the first two years of WW2, dying in 1941. When Hitler took Paris, he wrote a telegram, writing "Congratulations, you have won using my troops."
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5YdZk TIL jazz violinist Joe Venuti, known for practical jokes, once called every double bass player in the New York phonebook, asking them to meet with him on a street corner; over 50 arrived with their instruments, creating a minor roadblock. Venuti later had to pay them all, as mandated by the AFM.