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TIL all humans alive on the planet today are related to, and descended from, a single individual who lived as recently as 3000 years ago, according to the most realistic scientific models to find the "Most Recent Common Ancestor"

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x68k7 TIL the plane which dropped the atomic bomb in WW2, the B-29 Superfortress, was more expensive to develop ($3 billion) than the Manhattan Project ($1.9 billion).
kOJBe TIL Ted Nugent wrote the song Jailbait with lyrics, "I don't care if you're just thirteen," and "Wait a minute officer, Don't put those handcuffs on me, Put them on her and I'll share her with you."
b9b4p TIL that Cayman Island is just 260 Sq. Km (approx 16 km*16 km) with a population of nearly 65,000 has nearly 100,000 registered companies with a ratio of 1.5 companies per person. Caymanians have the highest standard of living in the Caribbean. Their currency = 1.2 US $.
9Lkm TIL there is an app that blocks all mentions of the Kardashians
xJj5 TIL the highest temperature ever set by humans was produced in the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. It was close to 10 trillion degrees farenheit, over 370,000 times the temperature of the sun’s core.