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TIL The Nation of Islam believe that white people were invented as an evil race by a scientist named Yakub, 6,600 years ago. The experiment also produced ‘red, yellow and brown’ people. Some of the white people Yakub created ultimately became gorillas.

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N7N4M TIL that a 6-ton night pearl worth 2.2 billion yuan (331 million US dollars) was discovered in Northern China's Inner Mongolia. It is mainly composed of a fluorite mineral and emits translucent crystal ray in the darkness.
gGGW TIL Lee Fierro, who played the mother of Alex Kintner in Jaws, walked into a restaurant that sold an “Alex Kintner sandwich.” The owner ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot.
nWENP TIL, the Houston home of astronaut Neil Armstrong burned down in 1964 and his family was led to safety by Armstrong and fellow astronaut Ed White. White would later be killed when he and two crewmates became trapped in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft in 1967.
JYaRl TIL the largest tumor successfully removed from a human patient was a multicystic mass of the right ovary weighing 303 lbs (137.6 kg). The 6-hour operation took place in 1991 at Stanford University Hospital where the patient lay on her side, so as not to be crushed by the 3-ft diameter growth.
N7mRe TIL the eagle on US currency has a name. It’s Peter, and he lived at the mint in Philadelphia. After he died he was stuffed and he still hangs at the entrance.