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TIL Quentin Tarantino refuses to share his wealth with his mother because she mocked his writing aspirations growing up.

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epaM5 TIL-Blackface minstrelsy was the first uniquely American form of theater
mDGE TIL there is more genetic variety within Africa than the rest of the world combined. In other words, Western Europeans and East Asians are potentially more genetically similar to each other than two Africans are genetically similar to each other
kOnD4 TIL that it can take a photon 40,000 years to reach the surface of the sun from the core, but only 8 minutes to travel to earth.
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XEXGX TIL in Jewish ritual law, the impurity of corpses can only be cleansed by the ashes of a red heifer sacrificed at the Temple in Jerusalem. But since there is no Temple right now, the cleansing is impossible. In some interpretations of the law, all Jews are assumed to carry the impurity.