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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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rR4JM TIL During the mid-1990s, due to stress from acting and promotion of his films, Jean-Claude Van Damme developed a cocaine addiction. He spent up to $10,000 a week, and snorted up to 10 grams per day by 1996.
4XmWX TIL Baby X , the virtual baby from the Soul Machines lab : A digital simulation of a baby with several system layers based on an AI model that will interact with humans and will have to learn it all from scratch, like a real baby.
e0lOn TIL There is a stadium in Brazil in which the midfield line is supposedly made exactly on the equator making each team defend one hemisphere.
Z8Djp TIL a man who regularly said that God sends natural disasters to punish gay people ended up having his home destroyed in a natural disaster
KOMP9 TIL the official twitter account of Sweden is given to a random citizen every week to manage because "No one owns the brand of Sweden more than its people".