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TIL a 747 is made up of 6,000,000 parts

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LQdgr TIL Chinese residents called their settlements as Tong Yan Gai, or Street of the Tong. This referred to how Cantonese people were brought into the Chinese Empire during the Tang dynasty
6EPKX TIL that the first Christian marriage in what is now the US was between a white man and a black woman.
kOn75 TIL South African novelist Bessie Head was born of an illegal union between her white mother (who was placed in a mental asylum during her pregnancy) and black father (who then mysteriously disappeared). Her works reveal empathy with children and women treated as “dead things”
GYVNE TIL that the city of Erbil in Iraq has a 'bulge' in the middle that has formed over the course of 6000 years as new buildings have been built over the remains of old ones
d8Yad Today I learned birds do not sleep in their nests.