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TIL: Wealthy Chinese couples use American women to give birth to… fully Chinese babies

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KO0A9 TIL that Germans make up the largest ancestry group in the US followed by African Americans, Irish, Mexican and English. The German language was for a time the second most commonly spoken language in the US before the stigma of "speaking the enemy's language" during the World Wars.
VDQD TIL That by using DNA, the Giant Panda which is often called a bear but has long been considered to belong to the racoon family, has been officialy placed in the Ursidae category with the 7 other Bear species.
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