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TIL Nigeria has Over 250 Ethnic groups and 500 languages.
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TIL Elvis Presley was actually blond. The King of Rock ānā Roll began dying his hair black from a very early age. Because of this, only one photo of him with his natural hair color exists ā and it is framed on the wall of Graceland.
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TIL: Grindr, a popular gay dating app, was owned by the Chinese.
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TIL in 1990, Dr. Mary-Claire King discovered the human gene BRCA1 which is linked to breast cancer. Soon after, Myriad Genetics cloned and patented it. She was sent a cease-and-desist letter to stop researching it. Finally in 2013, the US Supreme Court ruled that human genes cannot be patented.
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TIL that Norse people occupied and lived in Greenland before the Inuits (those descending from the Thule people of North America). Even so, the Inuits are considered the indigenous people of the island and they renamed all the cities from Danish when Greenland was granted home rule
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TIL a man with an IQ 190 was on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and got the $16,000 question on the world’s highest capital city wrong. He later discovered the question was flawed and sued.