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TIL that up to half of the current Cherokee nation can trace their lineage to a single Scottish fur trader who married into the tribe in the early 1700's.

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WkgA8 TIL if the people of Planken, Liechtenstein exercised their constitutional right to secede, they would become the world's least populated nation (450 people) and the third smallest in area.
lo461 TIL that overzealous organ-donation companies removing body parts before an autopsy have made multiple causes of death have become impossible to determine
JYyWl TIL of Antonio Prohías, a Cuban cartoonist who was accused of working for the CIA by the Castro government. He fled to New York and went on to create Spy vs Spy for Mad Magazine. Later he said, "The sweetest revenge has been to turn Fidel's accusation of me as a spy into a moneymaking venture."
BQxL TIL: Certain ticks can transmit a meat allergy to humans which causes the person to develop hives whenever they eat meat
D1epv TIL : we finally developed a new steel alloy as light as titanium!