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

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kJ4Zg TIL that in 2005 burglars stole $71.6 million from a bank in Fortaleza, Brazil by setting up a fake landscaping company near the bank and digging a 256ft tunnel beneath two city blocks to the bank over 3 months. Neighbors noticed vanloads of soil removed daily but assumed it was business-related.
Wb0L TIL NASA has confirmed Earth has a space-time vortex. It was measured by 4 near perfect gyroscopes in orbit.
Meoa7 TIL Titanium was in such short supply, that when Lockheed built the A-12 and later SR-71, the CIA had to set up dummy companies to buy the raw materials from the Soviet Union.
0dAvL TIL there were six civilian deaths in the continental US during World War II, and they were caused by Fu-Go balloon bombs (regarded as the first weapon system with intercontinental range).
XXXk TIL that the reason the movie industry is largely based in Hollywood, California was to evade the monopoly that Thomas Edison had at the time. Anyone not following his rules in his domain would be sued out of business.