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

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ANL0l TIL about the blood(like) rain that happened in Kerala India
PYPeE TIL that beer mugs are not called "steins" in Germany. "Stein" is the German word for "stone." The English word "stein" probably comes from the German word "Steinzeug" which means "stoneware"—the type of pottery that cheap beer mugs are often made of.
QZOM TIL In the early 1930’s, Warner Bros. began producing animated shorts specifically for the purpose of promoting music owned by the company. They were called “Looney Tunes.”
oBMdE TIL some people’s eye color can change based on their mood
Z8br4 TIL when Spanish missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan. The local Japanese people initially assumed that the he was buddhist monk from India and that Christianity was a new Buddhism sect.