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TIL brown eyes are actually blue under a layer of melanin

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grlrb TIL that Colonel Sanders used to be a lawyer until he got into a physical fight with his own client during a trial
0wxKM TIL Loofahs sponges are dried out fibres from a plant related to a squash
R7r19 TIL the world's oldest printed book is 'The Diamond Sutra' and it was created in 868 A.D. by a man named Wang Jie. At the bottom-right corner he printed: “Reverently made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents.”
GB55 TIL the longest American Presidential Inauguration was William Henry Harrison; over 2 hours and 8000+ words. He died a month later of pneumonia.
6EWKl TIL about the burial of "Shanidar 1," a Neanderthal who lived approximately 45,000 to 35,000 years ago. Despite several injuries and disabilities from early in his life that would have made it impossible to survive on his own, he lived to a relatively old age (40 to 50) with the help of others.