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TIL Even comparing different races, two humans from anywhere on the planet are more similar than two Chimpanzees in the same troop, due to a massive volcano that bottlenecked our species’ population.

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1gy8 TIL that in addition to saving a passenger train of people at the expense of his own life, earlier in his career Casey Jones saved the life of a young girl by standing on the moving train’s cow-catcher and picking the girl up off the track
yVnm8 TIL that Macaulay Culkin (Kevin from Home Alone) was in the NYC Ballet's Nutcracker, as the Nutcracker.
4XOAb TIL Sejong the Great (King of Korea), invented the Korean alphabet. While Korean was spoken, it used the Chinese alphabet which Koreans found confusing. This led to high illiteracy. King Sejong decided a new alphabet would fix the issue, so he invented one.
P1eNg TIL eels swim from a lake in Australia through stormwater drains and across the ocean to lay eggs in New Caledonia where they die. Their eggs hatch and make the return journey back to the lake they came from.
WE8 TIL ice can be one of 15 different solid phases