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TIL that only 2% of the world’s population has green eyes.

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g6RX TIL that used condoms were recycled into hair bands in southern China, and were rather successful until doctors raised concerns about contracting warts, AIDS, and other diseases from putting them in your mouth.
xVdB1 TIL that the spacesuits for the first moon landing were made by Playtex, a company famous for making bras and girdles. NASA had staged a competition to see who could make the best suit. Playtex officials essentially had to beg to be allowed to submit a suit design into the competition.
VWMG TIL As a result of where fighting began in 1914 and ended in 1918 on the Western Front (Mons, Belgium), the first and last soldiers of the British Empire to be killed in the First World War are buried in the same cemetery.
AnN4 TIL the longest & straightest overland route on earth is the most complicated deadly path to travel and no one has supposedly done it.
xVyl0 TIL In the wild, giraffes almost never lie down because of vulnerability to predators. They usually sleep standing, sometimes sitting, and they give birth standing up. When giraffes sleep, they curl their necks and sleep for about five minutes at a time, sleeping no more than 30 minutes a day.