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TIL: Chuck norris’s first name is actually carlos

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wrM8 TIL due to having no tools, an Inuit man once shat in his hand, shaped it into a knife as it froze, then used it to kill and skin a dog and make a sled out of its bones. He then strapped another dog to the sled so he could travel through a blizzard.
woYgo TIL There are a total of 129 streets named after former US President JFK in the country of Brazil. The US only has 35 streets named after him.
VBdJk TIL the reason why schools start on September is because a holiday in the summer meant that children could work on the fields with their parents
976X TIL Plastic dishes can’t absorb enough heat to evaporate water, which is why the dishwasher dry cycle doesn’t work on them
R5v57 TIL about 55 Water Street, an office building in Lower Manhattan with 3.2 million sq ft. of office space owned by Retirement Systems of Alabama the pension fund for Government employees in Alabama.