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TIL that 8 to 16 percent of humans are missing the Palmaris longus muscle which was once used for climbing.

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bLnN TIL that a small japanese railway company was so financially troubled that they started selling rice crackers, to the point that profits from selling rice crackers were double than those from the railway.
wolNJ TIL the phrase "Sorry, Charlie" comes from Charlie the Tuna, a StarKist mascot always rejected for having "good taste" instead of tasting good.
XE4mr TIL that the facial expressions we make are hardwired into our brains rather than learned during life. After comparing the expressions of sighted and blind athletes at the 2004 Olympic games, researchers concluded that both competitors showed or controlled their expressions in exactly the same way.
8PBX TIL that people born in a public transport vehicle are entitled to free travel until they die in Warsaw, Poland
WwLL TIL the best female sniper of all time was a 24 year old Russian WWII soldier named Lyudmila Pavlichenko. She left university in Ukraine during her senior year to start “hunting Nazis” after the Third Reich invaded the country.