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TIL humans have recently evolved new traits like the ability to free-dive, live in high altitudes, resist disease, lactase persistence, and others.

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d77 TIL a lawyer used his will to found a library into which no woman would be allowed, nor would the works of any women enter.
v1Nj7 TIL There is a demon personification for each of the 7 deadly sins and that Satan and Lucifer are seperate
7L17 TIL Neptune has the strongest winds in the Solar System: 2,100 km/hour (1,304 mph).
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