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TIL Sherpas mitochondria operates more efficiently in low oxygen environments than non-Sherpa ethnicities. This adaptation likely helps them thrive in the low-oxygen environment of the Himalayas.

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70mP TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.
PrdG TIL of Ming the Clam that, when discovered, it was the oldest living animal ever discovered…until the Scientists observing the clam killed it.
lomZN TIL an extremely rare, strong cyclonic storm resembling a hurricane formed over Lake Huron in 1996. It was the first time such a storm has ever been recorded forming over the great lakes region.
R5lXw TIL Chico Bouchikhi of Gipsy Kings, Brother was assassinated by Mossad agents in a small Norwegian town due to a case of mistaken identity.
oRBjK TIL Polaris, the North Star, is a star system of three stars gravitationally bound to one another.