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TIL that almost everyone born outside of Africa are descendants of the ancient Neanderthals, and “some spots in our genome are more Neanderthal than Human”

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x6lwD TIL The film Baby Driver was inspired by Noel Fielding's performance in a Mint Royale music video
4XmEJ TIL of Eric Erickson, a Swedish businessman who pretended to be devoted to the Nazis, but was really a spy for the American military. He made more than 30 trips to Germany between 1939-1945. He mapped out oil refineries that were later bombed. His family had disowned him for “supporting” Hitler.
D1pgP TIL in the early 1920s, the KKK was very active in Chicago with 50,000 members in the city, the largest of any metropolitan area in the U.S. The group was driven from the city in 1925, when a Catholic organization, American Unity League, printed names, addresses, and occupations of Chicago Klansmen.
m1kjx TIL In 1991 both former Senator John Tower of Texas (head of the Tower Commission for the Iran–Contra affair) and astronaut Manley "Sonny" Carter died in the same commuter plane crash in Georgia.
e0lYJ TIL well over half of all know Egytian obelisks were plundered over the millennia. Most were taken by the Romans, who moved 13 to Italy, with 8 in Rome alone.