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TIL that the Berber people of North Africa are genetically similar to the Sami people of Northern Scandinavian. Despite the fact both are considered indigenous to each respective area. The gentic link dates back 9,000 years.

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awneA TIL sci-fi author Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 60s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
wMeW TIL that the US Navy used the moon as the first “relay” satellite (i.e. sending signals from ship to moon to land and vice versa)
JG78 TIL: Laws in Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas prohibit people who don’t believe in God to hold the public office.
0deoA TIL that moose, elephants, armadillos, kangaroos, and even sloths and camels can swim.
GjrE TIL that Nazis cleared minefields by chasing captured civilians across, detonating the explosives.