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TIL that in the Kenyan island of Pate, there is a village in which the entire population is descended from medieval Chinese sailors. The story is that when Chinese merchants came to the island to trade with the locals, they ended up running aground. They then decided to settle and marry local women

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0dRG1 TIL that similar to snakes and mongeese, owls and crows are the most bitter rivals in the animal kingdom, and the rivalry is so ingrained in the minds of the two birds that crows who have been raised in captivity and have never seen an owl before will go berserk the first time they see one somewhere
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