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TIL that there is DNA evidence indicating Humans and Neanderthals interbred

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PlAZ TIL 360 people on average die in police chases in the US every year, 1/3 being innocent bystanders. There is no mandatory reporting system, so it is speculated this number is 3-4 times higher.
b6Ww9 TIL about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese workers from the U.S. for more than 60 years from 1882 until 1943
wLXaM TIL that 56% of the most highly-cited medical research papers in 2005 had results that were never replicated
p8pAe TIL that in September 1945 Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett defied US restrictions and snuck into Hiroshima by train. Burchett was the first to tell the world about the effects of radiation on the victims of the bombing, which the US denied both before and after his story was published.
WD19 TIL If you hear a word that sounds like your name, you’re predisposed to like that ‘thing’. Hence why a statistically significant amount of men called Dennis become dentists.