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TIL Casimir Pulaski, Father of the American Cavalry, may have been born female or intersex

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8aREK TIL that pillbugs, aka roly pollies, aren't insects, but are actually crustaceans and have gills
4XNRJ Today I learned that the earliest audio recording of the word "fuck" was made in 1885. A technician at Volta labs was testing his equipment when it malfunctioned and recorded his iritated response.
wLMAP TIL Gundam Factory Yokohama is constructing an 18-meter-tall, 25-ton Gundam robot. The plan is for the robot to have a steel frame and carbon resin exterior and be powered by electric actuators, achieving “Gundam-like movement”
nG5b TIL An Ohio Judge, who each year would move a drunken-driving trial from his courtroom to a local high school as a cautionary tale to students, was arrested himself on a DUI after he hit a County bus, failed to stop, then refused a sobriety test after being pulled over by police
NMbe TIL Russell Brand takes out homeless people for meals, just talks to them and tries to help them out.