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TIL of the Kalash, a group of around 30,000 people in Pakistan who don't fit into any race category, being genetically distinct from all other races in the world. They are now considered to be humanity's sixth genetic cluster, alongside African, Caucasian, Asian, Oceanian, and Native American.

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oBNyW TIL of "Project Prevention", a program which pays drug addicts $300 to sterilize themselves. It was begun by a woman who adopted 8 children from drug-addicted mothers.
epme4 TIL a Wisconsin man has eaten over 30,000 Big Mac hamburgers over 46 years, averaging 2 per day. He has only missed eight days in those 46 years, including when his mother died as she requested he forgo the burger in her memory.
7ryvZ TIL the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles was so profitable that profits continue to help fund youth sports as recently as in the 2010s
ANA0a TIL that in South Korea it's illegal for South Koreans to use drugs even if they are in a country where that drug is legal. It can be punished with jail time when they return to the country
jNvmQ TIL that a famous philosophical thought experiment about the senses first discussed by John Locke in 1689 was performed IRL under controlled conditions in 2007, and Locke was proven right