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TIL Lactose Tolerance (lactase persistence) is the mutation, not the other way around

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aZWA TIL the Spanish word for handcuffs is esposas ( wives)
6PPl TIL The US government is building a center to record all online information and communication on earth. It can house all the data on earth ~40 times over and is on the scale of yottabytes. 1 yottabyte=1 trillion terabytes. It is scheduled to be completed Sep. 2013
enmJ TIL the first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.
JYOnQ TIL you had a 20% survival chance as a man on the Titanic, but 75% as a woman
9w5eB TIL that it rains diamonds on Uranus and Neptune.