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TIL millennials now outnumber baby boomers.

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78Job TIL that The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family during WW2
GAm65 TIL about Ernst Reuter who was captured by Russians in WWI, joined the Revolution and became chairman of an autonomous German Soviet Republic, returned to Germany & politics, got sent to a concentration camp and exiled to Turkey, and then returned to be mayor of West Berlin during the Berlin Airdrop
PooO TIL the US stock of coral snake antivenom technically expired nine years ago, and the FDA has been moving up the expiration date every year through this April.
gm6b TIL The Jarawa People of The Andamans Islands are 100% Oriental Asian, express genes only found in Japanese and Tibetans, and are said to look like Asians did 40,000 -80,000 years ago - Jet black skin, short stature, and wiry hair. The Jarawa peoples had been in absolute isolation until 2002.
6yew TIL Argentine ants have a worldwide mega-colony, and if they get in an airplane and travel to a different continent, they will be welcomed in the foreign branch of the colony