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TIL Only 2% of millennials have excellent credit.

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8ayR4 TIL that the average Latino in the United States is nearly 20% Native American and over 6% African in ancestry, with some outlier groups like Guatemalans being overwhelmingly Indigenous or Dominicans, and other Caribbean Latinos, representing much higher rates of African genetics.
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