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TIL The people of Melanesia independently developed a recessive gene for blond hair. This is distinct from the blond hair gene found in Western populations

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NX71 TIL in a speech to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Iranian Vice President said that Zionists ordered gynaecologists to kill black babies, caused the Bolshevik revolution and control the international drug trade
XEBrX TIL that in US food labeling, the term "natural" essentially means nothing and does not ensure that the product is unprocessed or all natural in any way.
QJ9Z9 TIL there’s a man in Scotland who’s called the Catman. He crawls around eating rats.
LQNrZ TIL a group chemical compounds are named after Keanu Reeves, as they are comparable to his lethality in his film roles
MJx7 TIL that when a cockroach touches a human it runs to safety to clean itself