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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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9kpG TIL in the original script of The Big Lebowski the Dude’s car was a Chrysler LeBaron, however the car was not big enough to fit John Goodman so it was changed to a Ford Torino.
9YpGr TIL - Andre the Giant holds the record for the most beers consumed in 1 sitting. 119 beers in 6 hours is a beer every 3 minutes!
vQY8 TIL Shaq has a doctorate in education and wrote his thesis on humour in the workplace
4Mdo TIL that the wife’s happiness is more important than her husband’s when it comes to keeping a happy, lasting marriage, in a study that surveyed older couples married for an average of 39 years.
mMwM TIL there are more than 200 corpses on Mount Everest. They are used as trail markers for climbers and many of the bodies have earned nicknames.