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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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5VYKp TIL that the jacket that Jackie Kennedy (John F. Kennedy's wife) wore on the day of JFK's assassination cannot be displayed in public until the year 2103.
0VK1 TIL that the first episode of ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ featured Steve Irwin and his wife, Terry, trapping and handling crocodiles on their honeymoon.
yVWla Today I learned that if you collapse an underwater bubble with a sound wave, light is produced, and the mechanism has not been figured out.
VMbkB TIL The design of the Emperor’s home in “Mulan” takes its inspiration from China’s Forbidden City. The timeline of the movie is set during China’s Han Dynasty, from around 200 B.C.to 200 A.D.; while the Forbidden City was built about 1,200 years later
0kxy TIL after a botched execution by lethal injection in which the condemned man writhed in pain for over 30 minutes the warden stated that the condemmed man was actually just “stretching to see a clock in the death chamber”