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TIL: That studies confirmed that the ancestors of Native Americans left Siberia about 20,000-30,000 years ago.

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Y7Rdv TIL that Ne Win, dictator of Burma during the Socialist Burma period, was deeply superstitious. In 1987 he banned most banknotes not divisible by nine (his lucky number), wiping out people’s saving overnight and further crippling Burma’s economy.
MeJJa TIL of the IMCF, a sport in which people dress in full medieval armor and fight each other in an arena with a shield and (blunt) swords
XEybD TIL: The huge underground secret bunker located at Mt. Weather, VA, intended to house the Government in case of a nuclear war, was disclosed to the public when TWA Flight 514 slammed into the mountain close to the entrance of the base in 1974.
epKv6 TIL that the deepest scuba dive of all time was 1,090 feet, set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014. It took him nearly a decade to properly prepare for the dive. While the descent took only 15 minutes, the ascent back to the surface took over 13 hours.
wjXJ TIL France bans all non-court ordered paternity tests in a desire to “preserve the peace.”