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TIL that at 8-10 generations back, you have some ancestors with whom you share no DNA.

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dmwZ TIL there is a woman who was given the legal birth name of Marijuana Pepsi Jackson
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d8opB TIL A fault with the automation system on Australian Qantas Flight 72 (2008) caused the jet to violently pitch down so steeply, several passengers were thrown up from their seats and their heads smashed through ceiling panels. Some sustained long term permanent head, back, bone, and joint injuries.
KOW4E TIL about a serial killer, who was active in the 70s and 80s, and was caught almost 40 years later in 2018, thanks to the DNA testing company and tissue from his garbage can
Jprv TIL there’s a brown bear on California’s state flag but the last brown bear in California was killed in 1922