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TIL that despite the English identifying themselves historically with the Anglo-Saxon invaders that conquered Britain, only about 1/3rd of the modern English genome can be traced to these Germanic tribes.

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oRKVA TIL Ferruccio Lamborghini was a successful tractor manufacturer who loved driving his Ferraris. After telling Enzo Ferrari that the cars' clutches need to be improved, he was snubbed and told to stick to tractors. Infuriated, this started their legendary rivalry.
GYNkg TIL Teotihuacan was the largest city anywhere in the Western Hemisphere before the 1400s. It had thousands of residential compounds and scores of pyramid-temples, comparable to the largest pyramids of Egypt. It contains a massive central road and buildings but oddly, no military structures
JYV4Q TIL of Samuel L. Gravely Jr. He was the first African American in the U.S. Navy to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, the first fleet commander, and the first to become a flag officer, retiring as a vice admiral.
4mXw TIL: that babies born through C-section have markedly different bacterial microbiota profiles than babies born through vaginal births.
E1vWw TIL that Nicholas Cage ate real cockroaches while filming a scene for the film Vampire’s Kiss (1988) and that it was his idea to do so.