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TIL Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a DIFFERENT gene for blonde hair

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7m1p TIL epidemiologists studied World of Warcraft’s unintentional “Corrupted Blood” plague as a virtual model of disease spread and populace reaction to deadly pandemic.
DBrJ TIL the bookstore in Portlandia is a real place, completely unchanged during filming.
N7W96 TIL of Aeroplankton, the atmospheric analogue to oceanic plankton that deposit many millions of airborne viruses and bacteria every day on every square meter around the planet.
9YokG TIL there is a fish called the Minipizza Batfish. It’s flat and round like a miniature pizza.
QJBdX TIL that the shape of the human penis has evolved to remove another man's semen from a women's vagina