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TIL that there is a small town in Venezuela, founded by German immigrants in 1843, that has maintained its authentic origin culture, including architecture, cuisine, and language, so much that it is known as ‘The Germany of the Caribbean’

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7rbx7 TIL one of the responsibilities of the UN is to maintain a list of international days
e0g5 TIL, Many ghost sightings can be attributed to Infrasound, a low frequency sound that can cause people to see and hear things that aren’t real.
pYWD4 TIL Facultative bipedalism is when an animal primarily walks on four or more legs but can walk/run using only two legs. Facultive bipedalism is found many species including insects, lizard, rodents, and primates.
9wZKG TIL that Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada laid claim to the Scottish throne and offered to marry Queen Elizabeth to lead the Commonwealth. When she refused, he had four local British businessmen carry him around in a sedan chair at a diplomatic conference in Uganda.
GONG TIL that on a trip to America in 1989, USSR leader Boris Yeltsin decided to stop into a regular US grocery store. After seeing the amount and variety of food available to US consumers, he lamented what communism had “…done to our poor peole”.