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TIL that in 1917 idiots were prohibited to enter the US.
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TIL an American in the early 1900s dredged the Sacred Cenote in Chichén Itzá and illegally smuggled to the US nearly 30,000 Mayan artifacts found at the bottom of the cenote. The bulk of the find is in a storage room in the Peabody Museum at Harvard.
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TIL Shaggy got his famous lyric, "it wasn't me" from an Eddie Murphy punchline.
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TIL that talking to pets like cats and dogs can actually boost human attention and memory.
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TIL: According to Guinness World Records, PATH, a mostly underground pedestrian walkway network in downtown Toronto, is the largest underground shopping complex in the world. PATH spans more than 30 kilometres of restaurants, shopping, services and entertainment.
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TIL scientists have created a language called Lincos designed for communicating with alien civilizations, should the need ever arise.