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TIL that Finns weren’t originally considered “white” in the United States, they were linked to Mongols and called “China Swedes” due to not speaking an Indo-European Language

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D1ZYY TIL that some fish eggs can survive being digested by waterfowl and remain viable after being pooped out. This provides one explanation as to how fish ‘miraculously’ appear in bodies of water where they otherwise never existed.
MeAXb TIL that Jadav Payeng, who is known as Forest Man of India, created 550 hectares of forest singlehandedly.
0dMWA TIL that there's a Detroit company called extreme kidnapping where people pay from 500 to 1500 to get tied up shocked by an actual stun gun and kidnapped just for fun
9RDr TIL When the nazis burned books in Berlin, Erich Kästner was the only “burned” author who was incognito present at the ceremony. He watched the nazis shout his name and toss his books to the flames.
9Bn7 TIL that one of the missions Apollo 15’s crew did in the moon was to make an experiment, using a feather and hammer, to demonstrate Galileo’s theory that all objects in a given gravity field fall at the same rate, regardless of mass.