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TIL YOU were the Time Person of the Year 2006

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KOVE9 TIL in the event of victory in WWII the Nazis planned to host every Olympic Games that followed in a stadium that would seat 405’000 people
k4Og TIL that famous Mormon Brigham Young once said “If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of [Africans], the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.”
ANGnd TIL that "historians have determined that nearly 50 percent of the population of Sicily and southern Italy has Italian Jewish roots and was once Jewish."
v1Z6r TIL that Haiti had to financially recompensate France for lost colonial profits after gaining independence through its successful slave rebellion. This independence debt wasn't paid back in full until 1947.
wP4P TIL that Charles Darwin died feeling guilty that he knowingly inbred 10 children with his 1st cousin and passed on crappy genetics which killed 3 of them before the age of ten.