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TIL that by 2020 China plans to have their entire nation run on "social credit"..if you're good, you get more benefits. If youre bad, you get things/rights taken away

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mnDP TIL there is a crocodile in Africa named Gustave that has killed over 300 people.
R7Xe1 TIL that Francis Ford Coppola was hired to direct The Godfather purely because he's Italian-American: the studio executives believed that only a director of Italian ancestry can make a good mafia movie.
v1A64 TIL that in 2017 a Toronto man pledged to eat a photo of Jason Segel every day until Jason Segel ate a picture of him. During one attempt, he choked on the photo and almost died
8aMlV TIL extermination camp Treblinka II was disguised as a transit camp for deportations further east, complete with made-up train schedules, a fake train-station clock with hands painted on it, names of destinations and a fake ticket window.
Q4PE TIL: The HERC2 gene mutation found in people with blue eyes, is presumed to have only happened once. Suggesting all blue-eyed humans share a single common ancestor from which the mutation originated.