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TIL Only two percent of people in the world have natural blond hair.

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Lkge9 TIL that FDR’s grandfather, Warren Delano, made the Roosevelt family fortune by smuggling opium into China throughout the 19th century. A “fair, honorable, and legitimate” trade, according to him.
kOjaE TIL That Will Ferrell performed for the sequestered OJ Simpson jury while a part of The Groundlings comedy troupe
OG7Ye TIL a Japanese brand developed a spoon that makes food taste salty without adding salt. It works by transmitting a weak electric field from the spoon to concentrate sodium ions on the tongue, enhancing the perceived saltiness of the food
OoAP1 TIL that although no longer connected to the beer company, Guinness World Records was founded by the managing director of Guinness Brewery in the 1950s.
69RNm TIL a man called Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer of planetary science and a founder of astrogeology became the first and only person to be buried on the moon when his ashes arrived there with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on July 31, 1999.