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TIL Even comparing different races, two humans from anywhere on the planet are more similar than two Chimpanzees in the same troop, due to a massive volcano that bottlenecked our species’ population.

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W79B8 TIL when the town of Exeter, Massachusetts renamed itself to honor Benjamin Franklin in 1778, they asked Franklin to donate a bell to the town church. Franklin responded with a donation of books instead, which formed the founding collection of America's first public library.
wL1R1 TIL That temperature can be used to identify poor or affluent neighbourhoods in cities. This is because trees increase the "albedo" of a district by absorbing/reflecting heat radiation, whilst poorer districts tend to have less trees in public and private spaces than posher areas.
0de7j TIL that despite there being a number of empirically based theories, we still aren't completely certain of the origin of Earth's water.
VMQkB TIL the Nation of Islam believes that white people were made by a black scientist named Yakub 6600 years ago. Whites were exiled to Europe, lived in caves, and were eventually drawn out by Moses. Moses tried to civilize them, but he gave up and blew up 300 of the worst with dynamite.
Yp84A TIL Marilyn Manson's 2015 album was printed on the same discs used for PlayStation 1 videogames. The famous black discs were used for their high contrast against a white thermal paint that would appear when heated by a disc reader, changing the image on the disc when played.