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TIL that black skin, commonly associated with sub-Saharan Africans, rather than being a “default” early human pigmentation, is caused by a specific gene that developed 500k years ago and is specific to Africa

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TIL that black skin, commonly associated with sub-Saharan Africans, rather than being a “default” early human pigmentation, is caused by a specific gene that developed 500k years ago and is specific to Africa

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TIL that Kenya is home to extremely rare white giraffes caused by a condition called leucism, which reduces skin pigmentation but still leaves their eyes dark . Only a single male is believed to remain after poachers killed a white female and her calf in 2020

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TIL that Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, ages 15 and 16 respectively, were paid a combined total of $4000 in royalties by record promoter Sid Prosen for their first song, a 1959 original that hit #49 on the charts and sold 100,000 copies. Prosen promoted the song in part by bribing DJs to play it.

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TIL the numeral system we use today was invented by Indian mathematicians (1st–4th c.), adopted and expanded by Arabic scholars in the 9th c., and spread to Europe by the Middle Ages, mainly used in Northern Italy until the printing press.

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