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rLo1 TIL White supremacist and racist Craig Cobb said he would take a genetic test, and receive the results on live television. He was found to be 14% Sub- Saharan African.
vPZwK TIL that some XX chromosome holders can see 100x more colors than "regular" people
M8OK TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”
JYD01 TIL that there is a National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, and one of their Hot Dog Etiquette tips is that you can NOT use ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18.
jO4M TIL Earning interest on loaned money originates from the lending of “food money” that was commonplace in Middle Eastern civilizations as early as 5000 B.C. The argument that acquired seeds and animals could “reproduce themselves” was used to justify interest.