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TIL that the main genetic ancestry of most Black Americans and Black Caribbeans is Yoruba from modern day Nigeria (and surrounding countries)

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GV65 TIL that the Dalai Lama searches & selects a Panchen Lama - the person responsible for finding the reincarnated Dalai Lama. The Panchen Lama was found in 1995, aged 6, and was subsequently kidnapped by the Chinese Government, replaced with a boy of their choosing, and never seen again.
NBb6 TIL the population of Washington DC is greater than the population of Wyoming
XEkP TIL that the perpetrators of the “Diamond Heist of the Century” got past 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations – and to this day no one knows how
0dWwA TIL that one of the earliest forms of biological warfare was used by the Mongols, who would catapult plague-infected bodies over city walls to infect their enemies.
R5V08 TIL GPS satellites go so fast, that they need to adjust their location calculations to account for Relativity