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TIL blue eyes are blue due to a lack of melanin which lets more light scatter making them appear blue in the same way that it makes the sky appear blue

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PYP5L TIL Carl Linnaeus' corpse is the model specimen for the human race. In 1959, taxonomist William T. Stearn officially made Linne, the founder of his discipline, the ICZN lectotype for homo sapiens, and his skeletal remains are now the benchmark for what a modern human is and looks like.
GKA5 TIL that the UK Government used to employ “official explainers” who would tour parts of the country explaining legislation passed by Parliament.
xpG0 TIL it took 40 minutes for Supercomputer K to simulate just 1 second’s worth of 1% of the activity of the human brain.
0bnA TIL that during his burglary career, Malcom X played Russian roulette with himself, pulling the trigger three times to prove to his partners he wasn’t afraid to die. He later revealed in his autobiography that he palmed the round.
b9YbZ TIL the 'Cookie Monster' character from Sesame Street was originally created to advertise Munchos potato crisps in the 1960s, and was later adapted for Sesame Street munching on cookies instead.