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TIL that white people have a higher likelihood of developing skin cancer compared to black people.

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X0alk TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice
vlw7 TIL The reason Popeye eats spinach is because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording iron as having 35mg of iron per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former is equal to eating part of a paperclip
awOe0 TIL of the Lucky Cat, one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants designed to be intentionally too dark for Instagram photos.
PVmw TIL for the film Gone Girl, David Fincher made Ben Affleck wear a Yankees cap for a scene. Affleck, a die-hard Red Sox fan, adamantly refused, and this lead to a 4 day production halt, until the two came to an agreement that he would wear a Mets cap.
neJGb TIL Martin Luther was virulently antisemitic and his writings were used by the Nazis to justify their hatred of Jews