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TIL According to a 2007 study from researchers at the University of Copenhagen; All blue eyed people can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

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lo0VK TIL the song in the credits of Parasite was originally titled "564" years, because that's how long it would take for Ki-Woo to save enough money to buy the house. So when he tells his dad all he has to do is come up the stairs, we all know that's impossible.
QNb1X TIL of death flights, a form of extrajudicial killing in which captives are thrown out of planes or helicopters and later reported as "missing", most notable for being used by Argentine Junta during the 1976-1983 Dirty War.
VWb8 TIL: Sabrina Erdely (the lady who wrote the Rolling Stone UVA Rape hoax) wrote a story for Rolling Stone in 2011 about a boy who was raped by 2 priests and a school teacher. All 3 were sent to jail. Turns out the story was also false.
x6AO7 TIL That Napoleon's Penis was once on display in New York City's Museum of French Art in 1927. It was described in quote to look like a, "piece of leather or shriveled eel," and a, "maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace."
4kXa5 TIL about Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, a Paraguayan army major general who launched a coup against the dictator Alfredo Stroessner, successfully managed to overthrow and exile him, re-democratized Paraguay, signed a Paraguayan constitution with presidential term limits into law, and then stepped down.