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TIL kola has similar finger prints like humans.

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epdZE TIL about the 4x100m universal relay. It features 4 athletes with 4 different disabilities. Each team must be mixed, with 2 women and 2 men. The relay is started by a visually impaired athlete, followed by an amputee sprinter. In third place is a person with cerebral palsy, then a wheelchair athlete
kOvn1 TIL there are 45 genes which the human species has likely 'stolen' from other species, such as worms, fruit flies and bacteria. They have not simply been passed on from our primitive ancestors. Instead they have jumped directly into the human genome in the last couple of million years.
WkAm8 TIL the worlds shortest mountain, Mt. Tenpo, is 20 m tall. It's only a mountain because it was described as one on a topographical map put out by the Geographical Survey Institute of Japan. You can even get a certificate for summitting the mountain at a nearby cafe.
j685E TIL That Japan's fertility rate dropped dramatically for a one year in 1966 because of the superstition of "Fire-Horse" — it was thought that any women born during this year would "have a bad personality and will kill their future husband."
VN08 TIL that no soda company can emulate the taste of Coke because Coca-Cola is the only company in the U.S allowed to use imported coca leaves (where cocaine comes from) in their recipe. A partner company extracts the cocaine from the leaves whereupon they are shipped to Coca Cola.