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TIL that China colonized Yunnan starting with the 1381 Ming conquest. By the early 1500s, 1–3 million Han settlers (about 1/3 of the population) arrived, displacing indigenous groups. By its 1644 incorporation, Han were the majority, creating a new provincial identity where none had existed.

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D1k5P TIL of Taylor Alexis Muhl, a human chimera. She is fraternal twin sisters in one body. She has birthmark in her chest as her left side is darker, the recessive twin body part. She also has two immune system causing her to be sickly in her teens. Now in her 30's she works as a model.
698PX TIL that the symbol for Atheism is a diagram of an atom and members of the US military can have it put on their gravestones
xV6l5 TIL that Missouri was the first US state to amend wildlife conservation into its constitution in order to prevent it from being easily repealed, by a state-wide referendum. 81 years later, the model Missouri uses for wildlife conservation is still a transnational standard.
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