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TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”

p8oxp TIL the opposite of albinism is melanism and it is only present in animals but looks incredible.
Wk8LL TIL that the famous WW2 Japanese propaganda broadcaster Iva Toguri( wrongly associated with the name "Tokyo Rose"), was an American citizen who actively assisted the Allied war effort by smuggling rations to prisoners, and making the broadcasts as much as a farce as possible.
D1b8V TIL about Nimblewill Nomad who, starting at age 61, walked 34,000 miles, including walking from the Florida Keys to Quebec. At age 83, he became the oldest person to have hiked the entire 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail.
Y7Dxd TIL Nata de coco and nata de piña (soft gelly cubes often put into drinks, similarly to bubble tea) aren't made from the flesh of the fruit but from coconut water/juice going through a fermentation process where bacteria (Komagataeibacter xylinus) convert it into (bacterial) cellulose.
x6pPB TIL The Maimonides Dream Telepathy experiments were real scientific studies conducted during the 1960s and 1970s at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Led by researchers such as Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Stanley Krippner, the experiments aimed to investigate the possibility of te