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TIL the world’s only Cornish Pasty museum is in Mexico

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paGe TIL that humans are more closely related to tuna than tuna are to sharks. The last common ancestor of humans and tuna (and other ray-finned fish) lived 420 million years ago as opposed to 422 million years for tuna and cartilaginous fish like sharks.
WkVPA TIL that in the Mexican state of Chiapas, Coca-Cola can be easier to find than bottled water and has led to a diabetes epidemic which has increased 30 percent between 2013 and 2016 and is now the second-leading cause of death after heart disease
a8oNL TIL that despite the name millipede literally translating to "thousand foot", the first known species to actually have 1,000 legs was not discovered until 2020. There are 12,000 species known, there are estimated to be up to 80,000 species on Earth, and they have existed for over 400 million years.
mneM TIL having an orgasm can help a man’s body recover from illness, as the orgasm causes an increase in leukocytes, or natural killer cells, in a man’s blood.
Epg0 TIL there is one person still living who was born in the 19th Century - Susannah Mushatt Jones, born July 6, 1899