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TIL: Green eyes make up only 1-2% of the entire human population, and natural occurring Violet colored eyes exist.

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LNK0 TIL -“Genericide” Is the term for calling similar products by the same brand name, such as all tissue paper “kleenex”,or calling a photocopiers a “Xerox”. Most popular: all pain killers “aspirin”.
8K7Z TIL Dull, Boring and Bland. The community of Boring in Oregon is marketing itself as “The most exciting place to live”. It’s sister communities are the Scottish Dull and Australian Bland.
nJvd TIL: Humans have odor receptors in the lung.
O46 TIL the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere is in a river in Maryland.
N7Vdb TIL after WW2 the US government could not account for 7 German prisoners of war. The last of them, Georg Gärtner, surrendered himself on The Today Show in 1985