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TIL Fewer than 49.9% of people in London are white.

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149d TIL that when King Kamehameha of Hawaii died in 1819, his body was taken and buried in secret in accordance with Hawaiian tradition to preserve his mana. To this day, his body has not been found and people only speculate on it’s location.
DQYgv TIL there are people who can sleep less, be more productive and physically fit and overall healthy
0da1A TIL electroplating, a sophisticated technology used in microelectronic fabrication, was invented by Indigenous Americans in Peru around 500 CE. Europeans only invented this technique around 1800.
7rpPp TIL the word 'grenade' comes from the French word for pomegranate whose outer appearance and seeds resemble a grenade and its fragments
wLBxP TIL about Lima Syndrome, the opposite of Stockholm Syndrome. It is a situation where the captors develop sympathy for their captives.