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TIL Most black Jamaicans have Irish ancestry, due to the Irish slave population mixing with West African slaves

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GZ9N TIL that Ryan White, an HIV/AIDS spokesman in the 80s, was expelled from middle school after contracting HIV from an infected blood transfusion. 117 parents and 50 teachers campaigned for his ban, after being told that the students would catch HIV if they were in the same class as he was.
5YNpR TIL that the designer of the Pringles can is buried in a Pringles can, his ashes ofcourse.
4kEVb TIL that Namibia was the first country in the world to incorporate the protection of the environment into its constitution.
WKEd TIL a gasoline engine vehicle has 2,000+ moving parts compared to 18 moving parts in an electric vehicle
N5vE TIL Tobey Maguire did 6 months of martial arts, weight training, and intensive gymnastics after the first Peter Parker scenes were shot in Spider-man 1 to shoot the rest of the transformation scene.