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TIL the average Black American has roughly 1/4 European ancestry

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LQB5Q TIL that even though Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters and there is no evidence Shakespeare ever visited Italy, the city of Verona has a house that claims to have been Juliet's home. Her balcony was only added to the building after 1905.
GONG TIL that on a trip to America in 1989, USSR leader Boris Yeltsin decided to stop into a regular US grocery store. After seeing the amount and variety of food available to US consumers, he lamented what communism had “…done to our poor peole”.
4kmOR TIL of the Great Donor Show, a controversial reality TV show from 2007 where a terminally ill woman intended to donate a kidney to one of 25 participants. The show was staged, with the ultimate motive of increasing the amount of donors, a goal in which it succeeded. The show won an emmy
rgpy TIL It has been calculated that due to time dilation, the core of the Earth is 2.5 years younger than the crust.
7rbeb TIL that Shakespeare is credited with creating the name Jessica in The Merchant of Venice