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TIL that Kalmykia is the only Buddhist majority republic in Europe

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D1Yge TIL the Macadamia nut has the toughest shell of any nut in the world, requiring 300 pounds per square inch to crack.
dDE58 TIL in 1965, Pastor Shuttlesworth was arrested for leading a march in Birmingham. The Supreme Court overturned the ruling, saying the law was so broad that a person "may stand on a sidewalk only at the whim of any officer of that city."
Lk49 TIL That Magpies hold funerals for their dead
EZB7 TIL that the first scripted inter-racial kiss on US television (Star Trek) was meant to be filmed with and without the kiss. Shatner and Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of the shot without the kiss so that they could not be used.
0emp TIL North Korea’s economy was larger than South Korea’s until the 1970s. Today its GDP is about 2.5% the size of South Korea’s.