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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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j6yeX TIL that Klaus and Sunny from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were named after Claus and Sunny von Bülow, a famous attempted murder case where a wealthy lawyer was found guilty of injecting his wife, Sunny, with a deadly insulin cocktail which left her in a vegetative state for the rest of her life
GYm6Q TIL that after adding up federal, state, and local taxes, San Francisco residents have the 9th highest highest marginal tax rate in the world
R5xAa TIL The Way I Am by Eminem and The Night Before Christmas use the same rhyming style.
OoYOY TIL about white torture. A person is isolated in a all white room and given only white food to strip them of their identity.
ne56B TIL During WW2, twenty five soldiers were killed and another seventy one injured when an RAF pilot mistakenly strafed a crowd observing a military demonstration.