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TIL the term "Aryan" has nothing to do with Germans, instead it refers to the Indo-Iranian people who can be found living from the Levant to Northern India, and it's where the name of the country "Iran" is derived from

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j61AQ TIL Gibraltar is home to around 230 monkeys. They are known to steal from and even attack people.
Eg1x TIL it was claimed the reason the character Tracy replaced Brock in the cast of Pokemon was because it was thought he might be perceived as a racist stereotype because of his eyes. They later replaced him with Brock again once they realized that no one really cared.
QJ1bk TIL Beth seeing the chess board before going to sleep in The Queen's Gambit is actually a common phenomena with chess players attributed to The Tetris Effect
xWp5 TIL Facebook has about 8000 user deaths per day, and eventually the dead profiles will out number living ones making it a digital graveyard.
QJR5E TIL of an organization in Belgium training giant rats (nicknamed "HeroRATs") to sniff out landmines in countries where explosive remnants of war pose a large threat to communities. The rats are extremely effective, outperforming both metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs.