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TIL: Some parts of Glasgow have a lower average life expectancy than that of Iraq

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MwxV TIL that among the first people to have their genome sequenced were two white American scientists and one Korean. Surprisingly, the two whites were found to be closer genetically to the Korean than to each other.
xVa67 TIL for every 1lb/kg that someone loses, 86% of it is breathed out of the body in the form of CO2. The body literally exhales the majority of its weight loss.
mxZ6E TIL: Take any prime number above 3 and square it then -1 and it will always be a multiple of 24!
loboG TIL that Snoop Dogg’s joint rolling experience made him masterful at rolling sushi.
0w49L TIL that in 1986, Soviet pilot Alexander Kliuyev made a bet with his co-pilot that he could land the airplane using an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows, thus having no visual contact with the ground. The plane crashed and 70 people died.