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TIL a slave during the 1800s transatlantic slave trade cost 400X what a slave costs today on average

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vEYK TIL man’s walking pace slows by 7% for wives and girlfriends but not for other women, and increases if walking with another man.
VKOZ TIL that the Norse Sagas which describe the historical pre-Columbus Viking discovery of North America also say that they met Native Americans who could speak a language that sounded similar to Irish, and who said that they’d already encountered white men before them.
w0o8 TIL in 1993, during a Friar’s Club roast of Whoopi Goldberg, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in ‘black-face’ and began telling racially charged jokes. Whoopi came to his defense because she infact wrote much of the material and even referred him to the makeup artist.
XEOjQ TIL Tom Hanks never actually played the ping pong in Forrest Gump; the ball was added using CGI. Hanks and his competitor was just swatting air, timing their action to clicks.
Lk5xP TIL that scientists have built a device that can scan the pattern of stripes on zebras, as if it were a bar code, in order to differentiate between them.