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TIL of the Melanesians, the only black people in the world with natural blond hair.

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Mxpb TIL During WWII, Chinese resistence fighters mixed high explosives into flour for smuggling. The flour could be used for pancakes and safely eaten. Uneaten pancakes could still be used as explosives.
ne9NY TIL that in 1452 a Hungarian engineer, known as Orban, offered to sell an extremely powerful cannon to the Roman Emperor. He refused, so Orban instead sold the cannon to the Ottoman emperor, who used it to breach the walls of Constantinople in 1453, which brought the end to the Roman Empire
oRvVY TIL that the US military controls 22.4% of all the land in O'ahu, Hawaii (85,718 acres out of 382,148 acres)
wojd6 TIL Frank Lloyd Wright planned a 47-house community built 25 miles north of Manhattan. Wright decided where each house in Usonia should be placed based on the surroundings, and he designed three homes himself and approved architectural plans of the other 44.
vwgD TIL: Sting earns 100% of the royalties ($2000 a day) from Puff Daddys’ song ‘I’ll be missing you’, because Puff Daddy didn’t ask permission to use the sample from 'Every breath you take’