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TIL 93% of all humans who have ever existed are dead

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loMAB TIL That in 1614, historian Chimalpahin of Aztec decent, recorded that Spanish soldier Vizcaíno was stabbed by a Japanese Samurai in Acapulco, Mexico
OoGD1 TIL During the California Gold Rush a Chinese laundry man named John-John washed enough gold dust out of pants cuffs and shirttails of miners to set himself up for life.
WAxY TIL That The US Beat China In A World Math Championship For The First Time In Twenty Years Last Year
v1JK7 TIL of Ernie Davis, the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy and also the first black player to be drafted with the #1 draft pick, but never got to play a single day of professional football. He died of leukemia at 23.
Q0re TIL in Qatar homosexual acts between adult females are legal whereas homosexual acts between adult males are illegal.