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rRQb1 TIL that Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent.
j6Pxp TIL the borough of Queens in New York City is considered the most linguistically diverse place on Earth with about 138 languages being spoken in the borough and 56% of residents speaking a language other than English at home.
ap09 TIL cows have best friends and become sad when they are separated
pY9l4 TIL Of the estimated 60,000 people left stranded by Hurricane Katrina, over 33,500 were saved by the Coast Guard
b9B70 TIL that there have been two successful penile transplants in South Africa, as well as an UNSUCCESSFUL one in China that had to be reversed because the wife of the forty-four-year-old recipient panicked at the idea that he now had someone else's penis