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TIL Asians on average have wider feet than Europeans or Americans for the same foot length, based on an analysis of 1.2 million foot scans

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woVRE TIL: Our poop is brown because of 3 things- bilirubin, bile and the colour of the foods we eat.
b9ojp TIL that organ donation is on an opt-out basis in Singapore. Citizens who opt-out have a lower priority of receiving an organ should they need one.
5VX8 TIL: Bananas are genetic mutations. Man crossed two varieties of African wild bananas, the Musa acuminata and the Musa baalbisiana, got rid of the many seeds that were an unpleasant presence, and improved the flavor and texture
wLwJW TIL that although she is best-known for nursing, Florence Nightingale was actually a pioneer of statistics, creating the polar graph, and using data to effect change on sanitation practices in India
e0Gg TIL the // at the start of a URL are unnecessary, but the inventor thought they were a good idea at the time.