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TIL Puerto Rico is 75.8% White, higher than the mainland USA

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7Ngr TIL that future anchorman Dan Rather was standing 30 yards from the grassy knoll during the Kennedy assassination
R71a7 TIL of a unique species of lobsters that are not only coloured differently, but half of their body is male and half of it is female - they are called "gynandromorphs"
m10wO TIL the reason the stitch length dial goes from 0 to 4 or 7, depending on the sewing machine, is because the dial is calibrated in millimeters for stitches per inch.
lorBA TIL Adam Mattocks is the only aviator to bail out of a B-52 cockpit without an ejector seat and survive. The B-52, carrying two 3.8-megaton H-bombs, crashed in North Carolina. Upon reaching an Air Force base to explain his story, Mattocks, an African-American, was arrested for stealing a parachute.
gMr9 TIL that the theory that testifying originates from putting one’s hand on their/another’s genitals is false, and is simply a confusion of the Latin words testis and testiculus.