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TIL that there are only 8 African American billionaires in America & a staggering 607 White Billionaires!

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D1kjV TIL, medieval surgeons in England used complicated surgeries learnt from the Arabs including jaw-reconstruction
kJ70m TIL about some of the names given to gene mutations bred into fruit flies by scientists. Cheap Date is a gene that increases susceptibility to alcohol, the Van Gogh gene produces swirling of hair on the wings and the Swiss Cheese gene produces holes in the brain.
N7d6P TIL Bill Nye got his name after appearing on a show and hearing host saying “jiggawatt”. He corrected Keister on his pronunciation of the word “gigawatt”, and the nickname was born when Keister responded, “Who do you think you are—Bill Nye the Science Guy?”
VwXG TIL hundreds of thousands of books for sale on Amazon are created by content generating computer algorithms
OobZR TIL About The Paris Commune of 1871. The French workers created the first example of workers' power. They showed what a government of, for and run by the workers would look like.