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

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vEex TIL the amount of bacteria/other filth on a pair of jeans doesn’t increase after about 2 weeks of wear, with the study having the test subject wear the jeans non-stop for 15 months, and still not developing an unhealthy amount of bacteria.
LkPMv TIL during the 19th century, a Muslim caliphate in West Africa called Sokoto contained nearly half as many slavves as the United States
xeB0 TIL Mythbusters were not allowed to make an episode about how trackable and hackable RFID chips are due to credit card companies threatening to pull advertisement from Discovery.
kYee TIL Some Canadian police departments give out ‘positive tickets’ to thank people for doing something good.
KOjlJ TIL Richard Allen was a minister, educator, writer, and one of America's most active and influential black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent black denomination in the United States. He opened his first AME church in 1794 in Philadelphia,PA.