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TIL that Leonard Nimoy directed “Three Men And A Baby”

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9YM07 TIL the best selling single (non religious) book of all time is "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes, selling an estimated 500 million copies. It is also the oldest book on the list, being first published in 1605.
e0gxg TIL that the Berber people of North Africa and the Sami people of northern Scandinavia share a close mitochondrial DNA link. Researchers found that the two groups diverged about 9000 years ago, just after the last ice age.
KYvGB TIL that out of the approximately 50,000 known species of spiders, only about 25 (1/20 of 1%) contain venom that can, to some degree, injure humans. You should expect to find zero to three of these species in any particular locality. The term "medically significant" spiders refer to these species.
4XB0g TIL of Yasuke, an African who was the first foreign born samurai in Japan. He arrived in the country in 1579 with some Jesuit missionaries. He arose to become a confidant to Oda Nobunga. When he first came, hundreds of Japanese people turned out to see him; they’d never seen a black person before.
Xv18 TIL that “New Car Smell” is actually a dangerous cocktail of hundreds of toxic chemicals