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TIL that Sao Paulo has a bigger population than NYC and Mexico City and is #1 in the Americas

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wLD48 TIL George Miller, director of the mad Max franchise also directed the Babe Franchise.
16JQP TIL that Poinsettias come from Mexico. The Aztecs call them (Nahuatl language) cuetlaxochitl ̶ xochitl. The name Poinsettia, is in honour of Joel Roberts Poinsett, a US envoy in Mexico City who introduced the plant to the US and Europe.
KOLpQ TIL that Alan Rickman (known for playing Severus Snape in Harry Potter) was in Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells II
691G8 TIL about the Scunthorpe problem, which is the unintentional blocking of online content because of a censored string. AOL refused service to Scunthorpe, England because their filters kept censoring the word 'cunt'.
mx5xY TIL Walmart stocks up on strawberry Poptarts before a hurricane as it is a more popular prep item than bottled water.