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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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85xb TIL that a shabby-looking coat was needed during the filming of the Wizard of Oz, so the production crew looked at a second-hand store. There they bought a coat that was later found to be previously owned by L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz.
OGon7 TIL Charles Mason, of the famous Mason-Dixon line, was an accomplished astronomer who recorded the transit of Venus in 1761 and developed a Lunar Table in attempt to solve the Longitude Problem.
M4bK TIL Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000 from the bank with the intention of buying lottery tickets, winning, and repaying the initial theft. Against the odds, it worked so he tried again with $6.7 million. He lost all but $95,000 and was sentenced to death.
9YR8X TIL there was a Battle of Thermopylae in WWII, which featured outnumbered New Zealand troops holding off a larger Nazi formation at the cost of horrendous casualties
9YAl7 TIL that vending machines, champagne corks, coconuts, and elephants all kill more people a year than sharks.