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TIL The Japanese are descendants of ancient Koreans

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rRyW1 TIL A growing phenomenon nowadays is children in their 60s and 70s spending their retirement years caring for parents who are in their 90s and beyond. Longevity can take a financial toll on the family, as in the case of a daughter aged 75 caring for her 99 year old mother
a87NA TIL in 1939, Walt Disney won an Oscar for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. He was presented his Oscar, plus seven mini-Oscar statues by Shirley Temple.
X0AEE TIL that a former prostitute in Vietnam has adopted over 350 orphans who all use her surname
5V0Kp TIL Sobhuza II was king of Swaziland from 1899 to 1982 which is the longest reign of monarch in history
LkaZP TIL homophily describes the tendency of people to associate with those who look like them and have similar backgrounds. It is also related to assortative mating, the pattern of people (and other species) mating with those who look like them.