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TIL North America has 6% of the world population but 34% of human biomass

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O80X TIL there are 11 surviving people born in the 1800s.
WyJd TIL: Not all humans have the same number of muscles (pyramidalis is absent from 20% of us)
9Ee7 TIL Mexicans are extremely genetically diverse because of the mixture of Amerindian, African, and European tribes that have settled in Mexico. Mexicans from one region are as different from those from another region as Europeans are from Japanese.
xWeo TIL even the US President doesn’t necessarily have access to all Top Secret information unless there is a demonstrated “need-to-know.”
P1KYO TIL that Linear A, the writing system used by the Minoans of Crete, still hasn't been deciphered.