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TIL White supremacist and racist Craig Cobb said he would take a genetic test, and receive the results on live television. He was found to be 14% Sub- Saharan African.

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4XoM6 TIL that many female workers at Ravensbrück concentration were forced to produce army uniforms for the Nazis. They deliberately sabotaged them. An example of this is that they made the heels of socks too narrow or defective. This gave soldiers painful blisters on their feet.
4kdLb TIL By the 13th century, thou became the informal “you” and ye became the formal “you,” making it similar to the French vous/tu distinction. The separation of the two “you”s remained until at least the 17th century
6mLY TIL that due to wasabi’s high cost, most ‘wasabi’ is actually mixture of horseradish, mustard, starch and green food coloring.
bP47 TIL Cards against Humanity funds the Science Ambassador Scholarship: full tuition for a woman seeking an undergraduate degree in STEM fields.
RvYa TIL In Old English, ‘man’ was a gender neutral term. Males were known as 'wermen’ and females were known as 'wifmen’.