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TIL men in Ireland, Poland, Italy, and Portugal have lighter skin than women in these countries.

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4dma TIL that Kim Jong Un has started to edit pictures to depict a different history just as previous communist leaders Mao and Stalin did.
4X016 TIL "Six unelected individuals in Silicon Valley imposing their vision on the rest of the world, unaccountable to any government and acting like they’re above the reach of law. “It’s like we’re living in the Roman Empire and Mark Zuckerberg is Caesar. At least that would explain his haircut.”
NA7M TIL Loch Ness is big enough to fit the entire population of the world ten times over in it
Oo1Ma TIL about the "whale pump". Whales tend to defecate in surface waters; additionally the feces tend to float. Whales feed at deeper levels of the ocean where krill is found. The fecal action of whales thus reverses the usual flow of nutrients of the ocean's "biological pump"
WkjX8 TIL that in 2006 Bill Murray (56 at the time) accepted an invitation to a college party in the Scottish Town of St. Andrews after a round of golf. He showed up, drank their vodka, did all the dishes and left