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TIL New Mexico was named before Mexico
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TIL that because because Vatican City is only 0.44 square kilometers, and is home to one pope, they have a Pope density of 2.27 Popes per square kilometer.
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TIL that Fidel Castro had a serious obsession with anything dairy. He once tried to breed a super cow to no avail, brought the French Ambassador just to debate about cheese and the obsession was big enough for it to be the target for one of the many plots made by the CIA to kill him.
mx9WM
TIL in 2007, São Paulo introduced the Clean City Law. The result was a near-total ban of billboards, digital signs, ostentatious business signs, and advertising on buses and taxis. It turns out that some massive billboards where hiding whole favelas that few knew existed.
Vmep
TIL Crows are monogamous and raise families together. Offspring from previous seasons even remain with the family to help rear new nestlings.
N7BLM
TIL A solar super storm on July 23 2012 missed Earth by just 9 days. If it had hit, as one did in 1859, it would have sent us back to the 18th century overnight, rendering our electrical systems inoperable (incl. satellites).