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TIL Ashkenazi Jews are genetically closer to Germans than to modern Palestinians.

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78rvr TIL that the shape of Pringles has a name: hyperbolic paraboloid
RElj TIL when Australian cricketer and RAAF pilot Keith Miller was asked by Michael Parkinson, about pressure in cricket, Miller responded “Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not”.
R7VL8 TIL about the 1986 movie Troll, which is about a young wizard named Harry Potter Jr, and features an old woman who gives Harry advice and an evil villain who hides his essence in someone close to Harry – Over a decade before JK Rowling released her first Harry Potter book
Oovw6 TIL Paris Hilton was once engaged to a guy called Paris who was the exact same height as her and also a heir to a billionaire family
oB9J7 TIL Mary Kay Bergman, the woman who voiced Daphne in Scooby-Doo and all the female characters on South Park, committed suicide via shotgun.