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TIL Of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group with the stated goal of combatimg negative stereotypes, was actually a PR group run by the Mafia to improve their image. They even negotiated to change the script of "The Godfather"

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oR9LY TIL Pandas survived for at least eight million years. However, it has been proven that the panda has barely evolved in basic structure, meaning that they have had minimal change since the beginning of their time.
BrJwL TIL that in 1986 the Dutch embassy in London found out that the Scilly Isles in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands continued to fight each other for 335 straight years due to a conflict involving Royalist forces. No one got injured.
7ro9Z TIL about a Vanishing Temple in India that vanishes twice a day. Due to high tide, the temple gets completely submerged in water, and then later reappears at low tide.
X0g1E TIL the number of Indian seamen employed on UK ships was so great that the British tried to restrict this by the Navigation Acts in force from 1660, which required that 75 percent of the crew of a British-registered ship importing goods from Asia had to be British.
raK1 TIL The domesticated dog evolved from a tamer version of the gray wolf. Based on DNA evidence, researchers currently believe the dog was domesticated in Asia at least 15,000 years ago, with some scientists arguing that dogs and humans have been partners for as long as 100,000 years.