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TIL Humans are able to digest milk past childhood only because of a genetic mutuation. Only 40% of the World adults could digest milk properly. Rest are Lactose Intolerant or have reduced Lactose Tolerance after infancy.

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jNGKM TIL moon is moving 4 cm away from earth every year. In 50 billion years, both will be tidelocked in an orbit in which both will show only one face to each other.
6b7X TIL The Mad Magazine cover after 9/11 originally featured runners in the New York marathon with Alfred E Neuman jumping over a covered dead body. The magazine’s printer called and asked the editors if they were sure this was the cover they wanted, and the cover was changed to Alfred’s face
4XBDa TIL the whitewashed village of Juzcar, Spain used 4,000 liters of paint to turn the entire village blue for the release of Smurfs (2011). After the movie had been released, residents voted to keep it blue as it had helped increase tourism.
0dr4y TIL of the humorous and ineffective sorting algorithm Miracle Sort, where it keeps checking an array until it becomes sorted. It requires external force (a miracle) to change the array in some way so it becomes sorted, or that the array is already sorted to begin with.
XEZNj TIL France was the first Weatern European Country to decriminalize homosexuality way back in 1791. The man who presented it, Louis-Michel le Peletier, stated that only "true crimes" ought to be punished, and not "superstition"