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TIL rapper Nate Dogg served 3 years in the US Marines

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vglR TIL China has been running the world’s largest eugenics program for more than thirty years. The BGI Cognitive Genomics Project is currently doing research which has the potential to allow the IQ within every Chinese family to increase by 5 to 15 IQ points per generation.
p8j7N TIL Cuba had dozens of double agents within the CIA for decades. This was not discovered until a Cuban spy defected to the US in 1987 and started naming names.
8aWRa TIL I learned that both Chinese and Koreans refer to themselves as "Han." However, their origins are unrelated, with Chinese "Han" ultimately deriving from the name of a local river, and Korean "Han" likely sharing the same root as the "khan" of the Mongols and Turks
Wkp19 TIL the woman who first proposed the theory that Shakespeare wasn't the real author, didn't do any research for her book and was eventually sent to an insane asylum
J1L6B TIL there have only been 2 presidents in the history of the United States who were prosecutors prior to entering the Office: James Knox Polk (1845-1849) and William McKinley (1897-1901).