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TIL Food aid dropped into Afghanistan was the same color as the cluster bombs

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Qw6E TIL 95 percent of those of European origin can trace their maternal roots to one of seven women who lived between 10,000 and 45,000 years ago.
xYOw TIL that X-Files star, David Duchovny, got a Masters at Yale, and was working on his Phd dissertation called “Magic and Technology in Contemporary Literature and Poetry”, when he quit to become an actor
Raow TIL in 1930, Senators who didn’t like having to dial telephone numbers, wanted to ban dial telephones.
kyB1 TIL Tupac Shakur’s favourite song was the folk-pop ‘Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)’ by Don McLean and so on his deathbed his girlfriend played this song so it was the last thing that he heard.
woyy6 TIL that cigarette butts represent the most prevalent item of litter globally, with an estimated 4.5 trillion discarded annually. Each butt can take between 5 and 400 years to fully decompose.