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TIL About 95% of firefighters in the United States are men

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e0Xln Til about Scurvy, chronic vitamin C deficiency. "Bones that had previously broken rebreak. Old wounds open up. This is because one of the major effects of scurvy is that the body can no longer produce collagen, the glue of the body’s cells"
Bn6L TIL that there is currently only one known person in the world who was born in the 1800s: 116 year old Emma Morano
R70j TIL Australia has the largest population of camels in the world
VMJLp TIL that neanderthals could interbreed with modern humans, and around 66% of East Asians and about 70% of Europeans share genes with them
6JWQ TIL Dr. Seuss was confronted by a feminist who claimed there were no strong female roles in his books. He remarked that most of his characters are animals, and if she could identify their sex, he would remember her in his will.