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TIL Europeans evolved white skin in the last 8,000 years.

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lDOr TIL during the Makahiki festival in Hawaii, the chief would go off shore in a canoe. When he came back warriors threw spears at him and he had to deflect them to prove his worthiness to rule.
1y8W TIL Steve Wozniak put a fake bomb in a locker during high school and spent the night in a juvenile detention center where he taught prisoners how to disconnect the ceiling fan wires and connect them to bars so it would shock people on touch
yNPM TIL that 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea refers to the distance traveled while under the sea, not the depth.
woGrE TIL high-level woodwind and brass musicians employ a technique called circular breathing, to be able to play continuously without needing to pause for breath, by blowing air out with their cheeks while inhaling through their nose
pYdyG TIL that when Wyoming was going through the process of becoming a US state in 1890, the state demanded that women be given the right to vote. The US Congress denied this request. The state replied by saying that they'd "remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women"