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TIL that almost three quarters of all of Kenya’s athletics come from one tribe, the Kalenjins

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1O8X TIL The Nation of Islam believe that white people were invented as an evil race by a scientist named Yakub, 6,600 years ago. The experiment also produced ‘red, yellow and brown’ people. Some of the white people Yakub created ultimately became gorillas.
PJ1e TIL the highest Rotten Tomatoes rating for a movie based on a video game is 44%, for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
8a4Wa TIL about the Yellow Fleet, cargo ships which were stuck in the Great Bitter Lake for 8 years.
xlZB TIL that in 1972 there was a minor political scandal in Washington State when an assistant to then Governor Dan Evans posed as a college student to follow around his opponent during the campaign and report information back to the Governor. The assistant was Ted Bundy, the serial killer.
jKGa TIL Don King has killed two men. He shot one in the back who had robbed his illegal gambling house and later stomped an employee to death over $600. He was convicted of murder and later pardoned after Jessie Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and several others wrote letters to Ohio’s governor.