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TIL there are neighboring African tribes that are more genetically diverse to one another than any 2 countries of the 141 countries outside of Africa are to each other.

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4XrQR TIL: the infamous fleeing of "a million Vietnamese from communism" in 1954 was actually the result of a CIA propaganda campaign of "God has gone South"
rRjoo TIL about the Crittenden Compromise, a proposal to enshrine slavery to the U. S. Constitution and make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery. Opposed by Abraham Lincoln and rejected by the House and Senate, it failed to avert the Civil War.
beJ0 TIL a human kidney was put up on eBay starting at $25,000 and reached $5,750,100 before being taken down. “Of course only one for sale, as I need the other one to live.”
wL5jo TIL the total biomass of all the ants in the world is approximately equal to the total biomass of the entire human race.
loEjG TIL that Opossums have 13 nipples, arranged in a circle of 12 with one in the middle.