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TIL tibetans have more than twice the amount of forearm blood flow due to sharing more than 6% of their genes from Denisova hominins

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OGXN1 TIL Sarah Childress Polk got married at 21, became First Lady at 41, and after James K Polk died 103 days after leaving office, lived another 42 years, the longest widowhood of any First Lady.
6OJX TIL that radioactive wild boars are wreaking havoc in towns nearby the Fukushima nuclear power plant, causing an estimated $15million in damage.
YkpW TIL that birds can actually see the earth’s magnetic field and use it like the head’s-up display in airplanes
5Jd9 TIL that Canada Post has assigned postal code H0H 0H0 to the North Pole.
dDv4K TIL that cats display the same main attachment styles, as babies and dogs