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TIL Cuba is 64.1% ethnically white.

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BgbXD TIL in 1248, Ottokar II of Bohemia was 15 years old. Several nobles convinced him to lead an attack against his father, King Wenceslaus driving him from his castle. A few months later, Wenceslaus retook power and imprisoned Ottokar. But two years later they made up and conquered Austria.
7xZ TIL a 2011 study showed conservative brains have a larger amygdala, active during states of fear and anxiety, whereas liberals have a larger cingulate cortex, a region of the brain that helps people cope with complexity.
Rexw TIL Rosie O'Donnell spoiled the ending of Fight Club to millions of people just because she didn’t like the film.
neYoP TIL in 1985, an icebreaker ship was used to save 2000 beluga wales which were trapped in a small area by a swath of ice too wide for them to cross under in one breath. The wales did not want to follow the ship through the channel until they started playing classical music over the loudspeakers.
4XQk6 TIL: The Black Plague that wreaked havoc throughout Europe and killed roughly 25 million people, is 100% curable with cheap modern antibiotics and is still around but considered no big deal by the medical community.