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TIL Walt Disney World has a permanent no-fly zone above it

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rRwBy TIL Excavations for a new subway line in Mexico City have turned up 500-year-old skeletons of roughly 50 Aztec children and 10 adults, as well as numerous artifacts dating back as far as 2000 B.C.
Z8e7Q TIL 96% of murderers, and 79% of the murdered in worldwide are male.
jgVM TIL an African woman was brought to London in 1810 and exhibited as a freak show due to her large buttocks
jNWnX TIL although tomatoes are a staple of Italian cuisine, they originated in South America and were domesticated by the Aztecs in Mexico where Hernan Cortes found them and sent them to Europe
rjye Til: Gaylord Perry, a Major League Baseball played with the giants for 7 years and never hit a home run. The giants manager joked with reporters saying, “They’ll put a man on the moon before Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, Gaylord Perry hit a home run