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TIL The rarest eye color is green, as only about 2 percent of the world’s population sport this shade. About 10,000 years ago, all humans had brown eyes and over half the people in the world have them

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QJG1e TIL that "public school" in England means essentially the opposite as it does in the US. In the US public schools are the "common" schools funded by taxes. In England they are elite boarding schools.