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TIL that Chicago was called "Swedens second biggest city" in the beginning of the 20th century, having the largest swedishborn population in the world after Stockholm.

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1aMpD TIL Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to run for president in 1972 & ran under the slogan “Unbought and Unbossed"
8a0WP TIL That in 2011, Criminals in France stole over 6000 copies of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from trucks delivering them to game stores. They later did it again on the same day.
7rKdX TIL that when the ancient Marquesan people, who became Hawaiians, first sailed to Hawaii, they brought pigs, dogs, and chickens to eat. These fat, slow dogs that mainly ate fermented Taro root were called Poi dogs and were eaten and sometimes sacrificed and placed in ritual graves with children.
1e8W TIL that in 2001, hundreds of thousands of people across the world listed their religion on censuses as “Jedi”, a movement so big that it overtook major established religions, becoming the second most popular religion in New Zealand and surpassing the 400,000 people mark in the UK.
glpD TIL that Princess Peach from Super Mario already has a fiance called Haru-Oji. That’s where the brooch she wears is from and she is destined to marry him.