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TIL In U.S. today, 87% Approve of Black-White Marriage, vs. 4% in 1958.

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N7ebM TIL that 30+ minutes of running 5 days a week has been linked to 9 years of less aging on the cellular level
YpJVA TIL that elephants are so complex they are able to mourn, cry, have mental breakdowns, play the drums, paint, mimic humans’ speech and show basic arithmetic skills.
awjmZ TIL the fax machine was invented about 30 years before the telephone.
kdng TIL that the Nazis believed that Britain was the most “racially pure” country of all the Germanic nations, even more so than Germany.
Y8ar TIL when trees evolved, it took 60 mil. years for fungi to evolve the ability to break down lignin. Trees fell over and didn’t decompose, storing vast amounts of carbon, resulting in an oxygen-rich atmosphere that favored enormous insects; burning in massive fires; and producing our stores of coal.