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TIL that Mexico was once almost as large as the Roman Empire

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R5val TIL on July 19, 1985, in his sixth professional bout, a young Mike Tyson faced Larry Sims in Poughkeepsie, New York. Out of Tyson's 58 professional fights, this is the only one never captured on video. It is theorized that the scheduled film crew failed to arrive on time, missing the entire match.
grZr4 TIL in 1862 atmospheric rivers created a 40-day mega-storm in California that utterly destroyed a third of the state. Research shows that such a storm happens every 200 years.
5VRGp TIL that my country is 2nd least satisfied with love lives.
ONoR TIL there’s a 2015 remake of Purple Rain featuring musicians from the Tuarag people of West Africa, who have no word for purple, so the title translates to “Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It”
ZMya TIL that of all those killed as a result of high-speed police chases, 42 percent are innocent bystanders.