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TIL: By Player Efficiency Rating (PER), Nikola Jokic is the greatest NBA player of all-time

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wo6RM TIL The Mediterranean Race (or 'Mediterranid Race') is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. From the late 19th to mid-20th Centuries, it was widely believed that Mediterranean people were a specific sub-race of the Caucasian race...
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VMp8Q TIL: US fireflies are not the same in the west as the east. Eastern male fireflies glow during flight while Western female fireflies glow very faintly while grounded.
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