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TIL it is thought that the genes for light skin appeared in Anatolia (the westernmost protrusion of Asia) by about 8,500 years ago, & only became widespread in Europe by about 5,000 years ago.

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E1LBw TIL there was a 12th Amendment that was passed by Congress that, with the current US population, would require 6,658 members of the House of Representatives.
PY18e TIL Josef Mengele's bones are used to teach forensic medicine in Brazil's University of São Paulo (USP), in the brazillian state where he lived from 1960 to 1976.
MelYW TIL that in the early 1900s, it was believed that human cells in culture would proliferate continuously, but Leonard Hayflick proved that cells “remember” their replication level and have a limit to the number of times they can divide, also that cancer cells do not, so only they are immortal.