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TIL Mexico City's metro system transports some five million users every day for the extremely low price of about six pesos (roughly $0.30 cents)

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BZwW TIL from 1901 to 1964, the majority of Stonehenge was restored in a series of makeovers which have left it, in the words of one archaeologist, as ‘a product of the 20th century heritage industry’.
p554 TIL: In France, it is the law, that only a croissant made with pure butter can be straight
wZYM TIL The inspiration for Beavis was a straight A Student who had a similar laugh. He would laugh at everything his extremely hot teacher would say while biting his lip, and scribbling on paper.
PYNKn TIL about two faced "Janus" cats, named after Roman god who had two faces; one looking into the past, the other the future. They don't usually survive more than a day, but a 2 faced cat named Frank and Louie defied the odds and lived for 15yrs, even appearing in the Guinness World Records book 2006.
QNPdX TIL how trash is disposed of in modern large submarines. Trash is deposited into a Trash Disposal Unit (TDU) which collects and compacts it into a galvanized steel can. A ball valve is opened allowing the scrap iron-weighted can to fall down to the sea floor.