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

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P1O0Z TIL Actor Steven Seagal released a reggae fusion album called Songs From the Crystal Cave, with one track featuring the actual lyrics “Me wan’ da poonani”
madP TIL some skyscrapers have gigantic, 300-800 ton steel balls inside them to prevent high winds from making tenants dizzy.
QNnnL TIL about Nadia Popovici, a hockey fan that saved an opposing coach by identifying his skin cancer
MeA4m TIL of the Holocene extinction event, one of the most significant extinction events in the history of the Earth, happening now, as a direct result of Humans.
oBOrE TIL in 2007, Hong Kong researchers warned the "presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb"