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TIL that patriarchal surnames were uncommon in pre-Norman England

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QZa9 TIL that, adjusted for inflation, Afghanistan has sucked in more money than was spent stabilising all of Europe under the Marshall Plan after WWII
gMpGX TIL A 2015 study found no evidence that Kalash people of Pakistan are descent from soldiers of of Alexander the Great. The study, however, found that they shared a significant portion of genetic drift with MA-1, a 24,000-year-old Paleolithic Siberian hunter-gatherer fossil and the Yamnaya culture.
GYvR1 TIL Asia's richest person, Mukesh Ambani ($60.8 billion net worth), lives in a $1 billion home dubbed "Antilla" located in Mumbai, India. The 27-story home boasts a whopping 400,000 square feet of living space and has a staff of 600
vPwZ8 TIL the first Asian-American settlement was the fishing village of Saint Malo, in present-day Louisiana. It was settled by Filipino deserters of the Spanish navy and escaped slaves in as early as 1763.
xVQMk TIL: Every year the Alpine Swift spends over 200 days in a row, in the air, without landing. How the birds are physiologically able to do it is still a mystery to scientists.