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TIL Robert Downey Jr has a black belt after doing Wing Chun for 15 years

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07Xp TIL in Caracas, Venezuela, as kids go to bed on xmas Eve, they tie a string to their big toe, leaving the other end outside their bedroom window. Streets are closed to cars until 8am for people to roller-skate to early mass, tugging on hanging string as they go by to wake the ones that are sleeping.
VMwdQ TIL that in 1980, Richard Pryor covered himself in rum, lit himself on fire, and ran down the street while ablaze after days of freebasing cocaine
KYKoE TIL people have consumed corn silk to treat gonorhea and to make children stop urinating on their beds
8VaV TIL of Krishna’s butterball. A giant 250 ton boulder situated in southern India, that’s remained stationary on a slippery slope for at least 1300 years, defying an attempt move it using 7 elephants and even natural disasters like tsunami’s and typhoons.
r18e TIL in 1994, a man walked into a Washington middle school and killed his former teacher. 11 years later, the killer won $250,000 from the school district after it was revealed that the teacher sexually abused him.