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Today I learned about the original "Waka Waka" song

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GYJDG TIL Charles Darwin never used the phrase “survival of the fittest” and actually argued against it.
gY6D TIL : Debeers created the biggest diamond scam in history, by inventing the diamond engagement ring and implementing them into movies to trick the working/middle class into investing in them.
neL0Y TIL about pan-human love. In past 300k years, we overlapped with 6 known human species. All but us now extinct, though we interbred and carry the DNA of at least two (Denisovans, Neanderthals). Some Neanderthal skeletons carry our DNA too. Denisovans and Neanderthals mixed separately from us also.
Bro1y TIL the first ever piece of computer animation was the title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo
bknE TIL the appendix is used as a safe-house for beneficial bacteria for when you have diarrhea