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TIL 99% of people in Estonia have blue eyes

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xVlZw TIL that in 2013, a girl survived a Plane Crash, only to be run over and killed by a responding fire truck.
8avRL TIL Adrien Brody, in order to star as Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist, "withdrew for months, gave up his apartment and his car, broke up with his then-girlfriend, learned how to play Chopin on the piano, and lost 29" pounds, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor at 29 years old.
yj48 TIL - It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes to completely drain the average human of blood
8eNrZ TIL of Snooker Plus, a variant of the game which had 2 additional balls. Orange was worth 8 points and purple was worth 10.
yQA1V TIL about the "Duffy Blood Group" which serves as a receptor for some malaria species and that it is less present in Blacks resulting in increased resistance to malaria