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TIL that former First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson is a direct descendant of Pocahontas.

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vP6lK TIL in 1980, Fox considered "Alien" to have lost more money than it made. Partly this was due to the time it took for cash streams to be counted and becaues the production had gone overbudget during the film's production in England, due to the US dollar fluctuation against the British pound.
Lk1km TIL that sea otters have the densest hair in the world, ranging from about 26,000 to 165,000 hairs per square centimeter.
neOP9 TIL that, in 2014, scientists found a giant 30,000 year old virus in Siberian permafrost. The virus, Pithovirus sibericum, was still infectious and began killing amoebas. This raised concerns that melting or drilling arctic ice could unearth previously undiscovered pathogenic viruses.
78YOp TIL According to Haiti's Constitution, all Haitians, regardless of skin color, are to be considered black in the eyes of the law.
Reb7 TIL Researchers developed a blood test that can detect if a person has cancer from a single drop of blood with 96% certainty for most cancer types.