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TIL geneticists believe that everybody on earth is at least 50th cousin to everybody else.

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69KPQ TIL the first large-scale study of fish mislabeling in European restaurants involved more than 100 scientists who secretly collected 283 seafood samples ordered from 180 restaurants across 23 countries. Through DNA analysis, researchers found that 1 in 3 restaurants had sold mislabeled seafood.
wQ1o TIL that Charlie Chaplin was one of Hitler’s favorite comedians, and despite the mockery against him in the Chaplin film The Great Dictator, Hitler had it screened twice in his private theater.
a1pM TIL that HAL9000 in the 2001: A Space Odyssey sings “Daisy, Daisy…” when he gets turned off beacuse it was the first song ever to be sang by a computer (in 1961 by IBM7094)
D1RJr TIL Empty Fort Strategy strategy involves using reverse psychology to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes. In 195, warlord Cao Cao used it to make his opponent think there was an ambush, which bought him time to prepare a real ambush
mQ4o TIL In Delhi, if a tree falls sick, an ambulance is dispatched to treat them