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TIL that Different Races have Different Types of Earwax

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mxMEO TIL that Louis Armstrong always wore a Star of David as an homage to a Jewish family that took him in when he was young and gave him his first horn
R5j1j TIL that in 2012, a group of Saudi ghost hunters conducted a mas surprise raid on haunted sites in Saudi Arabia to look for djinn (Muslim mythological creatures similar to ghosts). The raids were initially successful, but were later foiled by Saudi police and 200 people were arrested.
WkjWA TIL, if we were to compress the entire history of the earth into a single year, modern humans would only appear on December the 31st at around 11:36 PM.
78QQX TIL there was a time when 6 geologists were convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict a deadly earthquake in Italy in 2009. They were later exonerated but faced high levels of shame from the general public afterwards.
gr1AA TIL "First Man" screenwriter Josh Singer interviewed Neil Armstrong's wife Janet, who died two months before the release of the 2018 movie. Janet's anger during Neil's mission was real, as seen in her outburst to NASA men, "You're just a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood!"