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TIL skin cancer is 20 times more common in white people than black people

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7rM1r TIL that chariot racer Gaius Appuleius Diocles is the highest paid athlete of all-time with an amassed fortune of $15 billion.
50k TIL there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Possible Chess Games.
OGgZ6 TIL In 2018, the president of Turkmenistan ordered the impounding of all dark-colored vehicles in the capital, and the car owners were told they must pay to have them repainted silver or white, because the-then president loved the color white & considered it to be lucky.
AOMa TIL that in 1981, the Russians successfully landed on the surface of the hottest planet on our Solar System, Venus. The Venera 13 probe later returned the first color images of the surface of Venus.
8kBG TIL there’s no standard definition of “nacho cheese.” It’s whatever you want it to be, and whatever companies think you’d be willing to call nacho cheese.