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TIL the head of the Gestapo disappeared after WWII and his fate remains a mystery.

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xPy0 TIL African Americans have high rates of European, Native American and Chinese ancestry. For example, scientific analysis indicates that African Americans inherit about 14–17.7% of their ancestry from Europeans.
Y7BWZ TIL the number of people who identify as Native American on the US Census increased by 86% from 2010 to 2020.
b98ja TIL That when he died, Martin Luther King Jr had a public disapproval rating of almost 75 percent
eprn5 TIL about dyscalculia, a learning disorder similar to dyslexia that affects one's ability to do math.
jZkN TIL that English speakers pronounce the world “colonel” as “kernel” because we adopted the French pronunciation (coronel), but the Italian spelling (colonello).