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TIL the people of Africa have more genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined.

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rRQAo TIL following the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Adidas left their factory for the Soviets. Instead of decommissioning, the Soviets used similar designs from the Adidas Gazelles for their military uniforms in Afghanistan and the "Mockba" style of shoes became a status symbol among Soviet special forces
VMrr0 TIL Elizabethan era upper-class Englishmen were restricted to spending no more than 100 pounds per year on clothing.
YpLWx TIL that Matthew and Maria Emanuel dug up a safe with $52,000 of cash and jewelry in their back yard but didn't keep it. Inside they found wet money, and a lot of jewelry, also a paper with their neighbors address. Eight years earlier their neighbors were robbed, so the couple returned everything.
B6Kx TIL Indonesian scientists have developed a male birth control pill that has been proven 99.96% effective in clinical testing
XErgE TIL After the War of the Worlds broadcast a similar stunt was tried in a Ecuador. Once listeners realized it was a hoax they they surrounded the radio station and burned it down with around 100 people inside. Survivors leapt out of windows but 6-20 people died.