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TIL that about 107 billion people have ever lived

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dDl9 TIL insects do not experience pain because they lack nociceptors. Crustaceans are suspected to feel pain, however no nociceptors are present in their anatomy.
YpGxB TIL blond hair among the dark-skinned indigenous people of the Solomon Islands is caused by homegrown genetic variants distinct from the gene that leads to blond hair in Europeans.
7VQL TIL There’s an Asteroid in the Asteroid Belt Named After Wikipedia
b9ew4 TIL It was comic strip character Dick Tracy's wrist radio that inspired Martin Cooper of Motorola to conceive of the first portable cellular phone in 1973. This led to the 10-year process of bringing it to market.
m6GR TIL that Mark Twain disliked Jane Austen’s work enough to say “every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”