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TIL that the Yahgan people in South America are the world's southernmost human population. They were decimated by diseases introduced by Europeans and the last full-blooded Yahgan died in 2022 due to COVID-19. Today, the total population of the Yahgan is less than 1,600.

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1awoO TIL In 2014, the International Space Station had to move 3 times in order to avoid being hit by space junk moving at 17,000 mph
9Ar7 TIL the mysterious 120-ton boulder walls of an ancient fortress in Sacsayhuaman, Peru have survived thousands of years, including earthquakes, in part because they are “fit together with such precision you can’t fit a piece of paper between them”
gGV4 TIL in 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
PYEJO TIL LL Cool J was asked to be in a Gap commercial, but was mad at how they treated him on the phone when they asked. He starred in the commercial wearing a FUBU hat and rapping “For Us By Us” in the ad, giving FUBU over 30 million dollars in free advertising and propelling FUBU to a global brand.
9YElM TIL: Beethoven was the composer of Fidelio. Fidelio was not only the secret word in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, but it was also the name used in Beethoven’s only opera—(a wife who dressed as the man Fidelio).