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TIL lighter skin and hair pigments in early Eurasian humans may have been due to interbreeding with neanderthals

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4X9Yo TIL How streets, roads, and avenues are different and what the names mean. Road runs between two distant points — two towns, for example. Street applies to urban roadways.
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GAN64 TIL that E=mc^2 is not the full Einstein's equation and it only works for objects that aren't moving