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TIL that Hitler had Jewish and African Ancestors

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BgpYk TIL that research has shown that women exhibit a marked preference for dating taller men, and that shorter men must earn substantially more money than taller men to be considered as attractive by women
691m8 TIL that hand and arm transplants are a thing in lieu of prosthetics
9YV97 TIL about Heat Shock, the reason why the people of Pompeii didn't have a chance to flee is because Mount Vesuvius boiled their blood and caused their skulls to explode within seconds.
vOOj TIL There were no red M&Ms from 1976 till 1986
b9484 TIL mandrills are the world's largest monkeys and they are found in Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo. The red and blue pigments, which are highly favored by females, derive from light diffraction in facial collagen fibers. Every night, each mandrill group sleeps in a different tree.