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

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GxVj TIL murderer Richard McNair mailed himself out of prison, convinced a police officer he wasn’t the fugitive they were looking for, and lived in Canada for over a year while running a blog on himself
oR9QY TIL that there has been a pope with Jewish ancestry other than St.Peter - Pope Evaristus was a Judean with patrilineal Jewish ancestry from 99AD to 107AD
pjZN TIL that the Slow Loris feels threatened when it is “tickled”. It raises its arms to collect venom in its shoulder. Specimens that are sold as pets have had their teeth removed and cannot bite anymore.
0d841 TIL that Julia “Butterfly” Hill, an environmental activist, lived in a 1500-year-old California redwood tree named Luna, 180 feet (55 mm) off the ground for 738 days to prevent Pacific Lumber Company from chopping it down. Her efforts were successful in saving the tree.
Bg4r TIL in 2002 a man tried to make a smiley face across the United States by rigging pipe bombs in mailboxes across the country