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TIL that Tibetans have a gene mutation that may represent the strongest instance of documented evolution in humans.

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yV0yM TIL Nuclear Fission was first achieved by Enrico Fermi in 1934 by accident, it took 2 German chemists 4 years to realize he had split the atom
P1KoV TIL out of the world's 2781 billionaires only 19 are black, 8 of them being Oprah, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Tiger Woods and Tyler Perry
R0n9 TIL FDA rejected Aspartame [APM] (infamous sweetener in Diet Coke) several times for EXTREME health risks. The CEO of the company who owned patent on APM was made head of FDA by Reagan administration. APM was instantly approved for consumption. Today, APM is the largest artificial sweetener in USA.
Y7Bwr TIL: French was the official language of England for around 300 years.
QN8LX TIL that in 2014, Diren Dede, a foreign exchange student from Hamburg, Germany, was shot and killed after he had went into the garage of Markus Kaarma, a landowner who was facing burglaries so frequently that he had set up a camera and left the garage door open to try to catch the thief.