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TIL Tiger Woods is only 1/16th African-American and 75% Asian.

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6E46m TIL in 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that film studios can't own movie theaters, thus breaking up their oligopoly. Before its ruling, Hollywood studios owned movie theaters to hold exclusive rights of showing their films, angering independent producers including Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin.
amL9 TIL Ivan the Terrible died during a game of chess
ZpVkv TIL The Smashing Pumpkins music video for "Perfect" is a sequel to the "1979" video showing where the kids are now after growing up
OoxZX TIL the German city of Frankfurt Am Main supplies heroin addicts with clean needles and tolerates the consumption of drugs in "shooting galeries" around the central station to control the city's drug scene. This approach is called the "Frankfurt way".
GyaG TIL a moose’s antlers improve their hearing by 19%, indicating that the palm of moose antlers may serve as an effective parabolic reflector