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TIL Ivan the Terrible died during a game of chess

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gm6b TIL The Jarawa People of The Andamans Islands are 100% Oriental Asian, express genes only found in Japanese and Tibetans, and are said to look like Asians did 40,000 -80,000 years ago - Jet black skin, short stature, and wiry hair. The Jarawa peoples had been in absolute isolation until 2002.
5m0B TIL: America’s #1 WWII Flying Ace was Dick Bong.
oB7A TIL Nicholas Cage once woke up in the middle of the night to find a naked man eating a Fudgesicle in front of his bed.
8e0NX TIL in Italy almost half of people have tattoos (48%). The US is third in the world with 46% having tattoos.
XErYR TIL Indians are relearning Sanskrit and reviving the ancient language, with 10,000 new speakers in 2010 alone