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TIL Polish-born American Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski was most likely intersex.

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07Xp TIL in Caracas, Venezuela, as kids go to bed on xmas Eve, they tie a string to their big toe, leaving the other end outside their bedroom window. Streets are closed to cars until 8am for people to roller-skate to early mass, tugging on hanging string as they go by to wake the ones that are sleeping.
kdKd TIL- To celebrate the launch of Windows 7 in Japan, Burger King made a burger with seven patties. A spokesman said “the group of people who have an interest in…the 7-patty burger — overlaps with the group of people who have an interest in Windows 7.”
rRJkx TIL when Agave plants begin to die they will grow rapidly in a death bloom causing them to reach heights as high as 30 feet.
vVv8 TIL Picasso burned most of his early work to keep his apartment warm because he was poor.
69v98 TIL that Kalmykia, a republic in Russia, is the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the predominant religion