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TIL: About the Minoan Civilization (3000BC) where women walked barechested and men used skirts

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rRQb1 TIL that Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent.
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