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TIL Victorians didn't actually cover table legs because they were too 'sexy'

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9Ee7 TIL Mexicans are extremely genetically diverse because of the mixture of Amerindian, African, and European tribes that have settled in Mexico. Mexicans from one region are as different from those from another region as Europeans are from Japanese.
aYbL TIL A Chicago couple won $30 million in the state lottery and didn’t tell anyone. Not even their kids.
RYQ6 TIL The bottom of Lake Ontario is so cold that skyscrapers use it as coolant for AC systems
GYrYQ TIL that bees have small "pockets" on their hind legs which they use to collect the pollen that has stuck to their antennae, face, or body.
lKj5 TIL George Clooney suffered from Bell’s Palsy while he was in middle school. It only lasted for a year, but he was relentlessly harassed and heckled by his classmates.