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TIL when you think youre iphone drains battery 10 percent overnight, then it needs software update

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R7JD8 TIL: That Anthropologist Rudolf Martin discovered there are actually 16 different eye colors and created the "Martin Scale", which was then expanded to 20 different eye colors, called the "Martin-Schultz Scale".
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