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TIL Human eggs choose the sperm that fertilizes it, not the other way around

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Vr6B TIL in the last 5 millennia, genetic change in humans has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period of human evolution. Humans today are more genetically different from humans living 5,000 years ago than these people were from humans living 40,000 years ago.
7rV4M TIL that actress Lucy Liu has also led a successful career as a visual artist, having produced art through painting, photography, and mixed media. She's published this art under the pseudonym, Yu Ling (her Chinese name) since 1993.
Zpxma TIL that the Philippines only has 2 forensic pathologists. Many Filipinos train for the profession but end up working abroad because there is virtually no work for them in the country.
D1pND TIL the will of P.L. Travers (writer of Mary Poppins) specifically forbid all future American adaptions of her work
XZMD TIL In 2005 an innocent man was pinned to the ground by British police and shot 7 times in the head point blank thinking he was a suicide bomber and later tried to cover it up.