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TIL In 1519 the Aztecs had salt and fresh water aquariums in their capital Tenochtitlan

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Zp5DR TIL in 1964, a country changed names during the Olympics. It entered the Olympics as Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate, and left as Zambia, becoming fully independent on the day of the closing ceremony. The athletes marched in the ceremony with a new placard featuring the word "Zambia".
xVe5b TIL that the Sphynx cat came about barely in the 1960s and originated in Canada when a domestic cat gave birth to a hairless kitten. It was then bred solely for its natural hairless trait.
GAK01 TIL cats can't actually see in the dark. They just capture more light, which make their night vision about 8 times better than ours. Though in pitch black a cat won't see anything!
D9kv TIL in 1926, women in Toronto competed to produce the most babies over a 10 year period. The winner would receive the estate of a well-known lawyer/practical joker.
XOyP TIL that One-third of the world’s smokers are Chinese, amounting to a smoking population greater than the entire population of the United States.