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TIL That only 1-2% of the entire human population have green eyes.

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PYwjg TIL that the grizzly bears depicted on the Missouri state seal and state flag have never resided in the state.
XDRE TIL the reason cats flex (also called kneading) their claws when sitting on your lap is due to a behavior from when it was a kitten. The kitten has to flex its claws around the mothers nipple in order to get it to start lactating. In adulthood its just re triggered from being nurtured
1aYwX TIL about the Faint young Sun paradox that in Earths early history the energy output of the Sun was only 70% of what it is today, yet earth had liquid water and a climate hospitable to the formation of life, rather than the frozen environment that it should be with the Sun's reduced energy.
N7YE8 TIL that Jimi Heselden, the owner the Segway Company died after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his home in Yorkshire, England.
e06yL TIL that after a man received a heart transplant from a suicide victim, he went on to marry the donor's widow and then eventually killed himself in the exact same way the donor did.