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TIL: The HERC2 gene mutation found in people with blue eyes, is presumed to have only happened once. Suggesting all blue-eyed humans share a single common ancestor from which the mutation originated.

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j6B4R TIL Crown Royal Whisky was created in 1939 specifically to celebrate King George VI as the first reigning monarch to Cross the Atlantic and visit Canada. The popular whisky wasn't available outside Canada until 1964.
ANLAx TIL about how the Royals of Hawai'i went to Queen Victoria's golden Jubilee and that Queen Kapi'olani of the Hawaiian islands was seated two seats to Queen Victoria, a Sign that she was a guest of high status.
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