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TIL Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a DIFFERENT gene for blonde hair

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LQMGv TIL New York City implemented a bird-killing program to reduce bird strikes at LaGuardia Airport. Over 70,000 birds have been culled since Flight 1549's ditching in the Hudson River in 2009.
woDgo TIL Italy used to be the 4th largest economy on Earth in 1991, behind only the USA, Japan and Germany, however unsustainable budget deficits and massive public debt eventually caught up to them, flatlining their economic growth
klN1 TIL a group of hedgehogs is called a “prickle.”
89oX TIL starlings exist in North America because one guy wanted to introduce all the birds mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare.
KYg6w TIL that the eunuch in charge of the Ottoman harem (‘the master of the girls’) was always a Black African. The reason and origins of this tradition are unknown, but the Chief Black Eunuch came to wield considerable political power