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TIL that Yoda had a first name: Minch

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mJBx TIL Speedo invented a swimsuit so advanced, it broke 23 of 25 world records and was banned as being classed as “technological doping”.
P1MlE TIL the Anga people of Papua New Guinea smoke their dead to preserve them
9Ybvp TIL Martin Van Buren was the first president who was born after the United States declared independence, and the first to have English as a second language.
x6kjo TIL The little green and red traffic light men in southern Taiwan have got themselves girlfriends. The street crossings feature the animated red man kneeling down to propose to his girlfriend, and the green man holding his girlfriend's hand and crossing the road.
OGEGY TIL that in 2020 the Smithsonian published an article claiming that things like individualism, planning for the future, avoiding conflict, and being polite were all aspects of "white culture"