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TIL Chicago is named the Windy City because in the mid 1800’s, journalists thought that the well to do and politicians were “windbags” that only cared about money.

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l7POV TIL about the media frenzy surrounding the hostage crisis in Gladbeck, Germany in 1988, where a journalist asked to hold the gun to a hostage's head for a photo.
VPP0 TIL that the vast majority of vegetarians and vegans eventually return to meat.
R5wW7 TIL that in 1577 Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sagagún completed his Manuscript, The Florentine Codex, making it the most reliable source of information about Mexican culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico.
lwEB TIL that the main genetic ancestry of most Black Americans and Black Caribbeans is Yoruba from modern day Nigeria (and surrounding countries)