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

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ZpygD TIL South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were asked to write the prequel to Dumb and Dumber. In an interview with Playboy in 2000, they explained they worked on it for two years, but they were too busy with South Park to finish it
Bb8L TIL that, for half the cost of a new nuclear power plant, we could retrofit 1,600,000 homes for energy efficiency and save the same amount of energy as the new power plant would make.
p8LMb TIL of Flossie Wong-Staal, a pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher who performed nucleotide sequencing on HIV to map its entire genetic makeup and to elucidate its many variations. Such research helped improve the medical outlook for millions of HIV/AIDS patients around the world.
N7JjN TIL New research shows that men tend to like most profiles on Tinder, while women only swipe right on the people they’re actually attracted to. Men are less likely to send messages: only seven percent of men who matched with a fake profile sent a message, compared with 21 percent of women
nWKXb TIL the design of large Victorian-era glasshouses takes its cue from the waterlily's huge leaves. Joseph Paxton tested his idea by standing his daughter on a floating leaf, and then went on to build the 1,851 feet (564 m) long, 128 feet (39 m) high Crystal Palace using the same principle