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TIL The evolutionary path of how lizards lost their legs to become snakes is one of the most well documented transitions as most intermediates still exist!

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mx1nR TIL that when Charles Manson was a child, his mom sold him for a pitcher of beer to a woman who wanted to have children.
jDxp TIL of Antihydrogen, a material valued at 90 trillion dollars per gram, making it the most expensive material in the world.
axly TIL: Kim Ung-Yong, the man with the highest IQ, who attended University at age 4, and worked for NASA as a teen, could not find work in Korea because he technically didn’t graduate Elementary School.
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pYWQN TIL for every 100 people in a person's life 4 or so are likely to be a psychopath