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TIL 20,000 pigs once roamed the streets of New York eating trash

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6ml7 TIL that there is a hardcore full contact style of Karate called “Kyokushin” which means “The Ultimate Truth” in Japanese where students fight barehanded and have to fight 100 people in a row in order to get a black belt.
nvrY TIL that Harriet Tubman carried a gun with her on the Underground Railroad. If a runaway slave threatened to give up and go back to the plantation, she would point the gun at him and threaten to shoot him dead.
ne4p9 TIL green screens are green because it doesn’t match any natural skin tone of the actor so no part of them will be accidentally edited out.
W7kj9 TIL that there was a blue man named Paul “Papa Smurf” Karason who had a rare skin condition that made his skin entirely blue from high red blood cell count which caused his skin not to release oxygen at normal levels
jZwn TIL they finally finished burying the British Empire’s First World War dead in 1938. One year later, the Second World War would begin.