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TIL Humans share 50% DNA with bananas

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YpWZA TIL that Steve Young, 3x Super Bowl champion and 2x NFL MVP, was the great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, the 2nd president of the LDS church. In college, Steve played football at BYU, the university named after his great-great-great-grandfather.
OomaR Today I learned that Branch Rickey, who broke baseball's color barrier by hiring Jackie Robinson, had a daughter who flew military aircraft in World War II. As a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, she ferried bombers and fighters to free up male pilots. Those trailblazing Rickeys!
DPbY TIL due to high import taxes, A PS4 in Brazil costs roughly $1850.
neKxW TIL a German POW called Georg Gärtner successfully escaped and lived in the US for 40 years before revealing his identity after his wife, who had no idea about his history, became increasingly frustrated over his refusal to talk about his past and threatened divorce. He became a US Citizen in 2009.
0wDly TIL That the DEA found an increase from about 4% THC in 1995 to about 12% in 2014 in marijuana. By 2017, another study showed, the potency of illicit drug samples had gone up to 17.1% THC, an increase of more than 300% from 1995 to about 2017.