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TIL Samoans are some of the tallest people in the world because they practiced eugenics. The tallest warriors were selected as mates.

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oaER TIL that Coors Beer was not available east of the Mississippi until the 1980s. Its rarity made the beer coveted elsewhere; travelers often took cases when leaving the western US. The film ‘Smokey and the Bandit’, about smuggling Coors, added to the beer’s mystique.
GNJj TIL The front room of a house was often used to display the dead for funerals and would often be called the Death Room. As this practice fell out of favor, the name of this room changed to “Living Room”
Eg1Jx TIL that in France, Art Nouveau style was also called Style Jules Verne and Le Style Métro after Hector Guimard’s iron and glass subway entrances.
N7DxQ TIL there is a 1000 years old Japanese poem about the fleetingness of existence, which uses each letter of the Japanese alphabet exactly once. The poem was used as a way to order the alphabet until the Meiji restauration
ZmAa TIL There was a post WWII group of Jews know as the Nakam (AKA The Avengers) who tracked down and assassinated Nazi war criminals