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TIL the idea that redheads as a recessive gene will cease to be born is a myth.

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4X7gJ TIL that humans didn't perform the critically acclaimed high five before the 70's.
78NWp TIL that in February 2025 a group of 8 beavers constructed a dam in the exact location that the Czech government had planned to build one. The initial project had been in the planning stage since 2018 and would have cost over $1.2 million.
8aLeZ TIL about schizophrenic numbers, which are irrational numbers that display similarities to rational numbers.