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TIL we are closer to ‘idicracy’ thank we think, meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind

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neVgo TIL that not only is Jar Jar Binks one of the most hated characters in the Star Wars franchise, but he is also one of the most hated characters in the history of film.
yV558 TIL about James Jakob Williams: An African-American marine that - after fighting in the Second Barbary War (1815) - traveled to Greece where slavery had been abolished. There, he fought for the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman empire. He died in 1829: a free man, in a free Greece.
EgQRw TIL NATO article 5 doesn’t cover anything outside of Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.
GxQ5 TIL that 150,000 condoms were provided to the athletes at the 2012 olympics, enough for each athlete to have protected sex 15 times.
ANKDl TIl that it is impossible to actually sink in quicksand.