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TIL that 95% of Paraguayans are mestizos: people of mixed Spanish and Native-American ancestry.

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XWZr TIL that the Traveling Wilburys are named after a slang term that George Harrison and Jeff Lynne gave to studio equipment. They referred to equalizers and limiters as “wilburys”, as in “we’ll bury that mistake in the mix”.
1arOV TIL: There were 'Dance Marathons' in the 1930's during the Great Depression. Desperate couples would dance for days on end just to have a roof over their head and food to eat. Dance partners took turns sleeping while the other one held them up and continued dancing.
d059 TIL There are huge “stepwells” in India up to 13 stories deep which keep the water 5-6 degrees cooler than it is at the surface
ZpgAa TIL: In 2008 a man beheaded and ate a man’s eyes on a greyhound bus in Canada and was found not guilty of murder and is now roaming free
oZBR TIL that the makers of “Pants are Overrated” did a 4-strip tribute to Calvin and Hobbes, taking place 26 years later.