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TIL a muscle of the hand, palmaris longus, is absent in 14% of the population. Some people can even have it in one hand and not in the other.

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LkXjp TIL that a popular New Year’s Eve tradition in Germany is to watch a relatively obscure 18 minute British short called Dinner For One (1963) with 17 million people tuning in on 31st December 2016.
EgREX TIL that in 1958 the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family’s backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina.The conventional explosives detonated, blowing a 70-ft-wide crater and injuring six people, but there was no nuclear core installed, so it didn’t go nuclear.
VEvp TIL ‘The Observer’, from the TV show Fringe, could be spotted on other FOX programming throughout the first season, such as in the audience of American Idol (video 14 in link), or on the sidelines of NFL and NASCAR events.
16kXd TIL Sub-Saharan Africans trace up to 19% of their genetic ancestry to an extinct hominin species that is NOT found in the DNA of present-day Asians or Caucasians.
R54N6 TIL in 1998, a portion of the Titanic's hull was recovered and is now on display in a casino. Visitors are provided with a 'boarding pass' that bears the name of a passenger, and they can learn about the fate of that passenger at the end of the exhibition.