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TIL I learned there’s a Silly Walk March in Brno (Prague) every year as a tribute to the famous Monty Python’s sketch

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4Zpg TIL in 1985, a volcanic mudslide in Colombia trapped a 13-year old girl’s legs in debris with her head above water. Omayra Sánchez survived like this for 60 hours, even doing interviews with the press, before finally dying.
yaL8 TIL Pizza is claimed to be the most addictive food due to its high sugar content. The tomato sauce on a single slice can have more sugar than a few Oreos. Conversely, cucumbers are the least addictive food.
R5lKQ TIL that for centuries, numerous African populations were purported to be illiterate by European academics. In fact, they'd been using Ajami for literature and communication. Ajami adapts the Arabic script for many African languages, like Roman script is used for European ones...
0ZGp TIL that Sriracha sauce (“rooster sauce”) founder Huy Fong started his company in a small office in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, hand-grinding peppers and selling the sauce to friends - he now runs it out of a 655,000 square foot HQ.
pPeZ TIL apparently you can use blood on a urine pregnancy test and get accurate results