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TIL An electric scooter firm in Mexico City temporarily ceased operations in 2019 because so many of its two-wheeled units have been stolen. The company said in a statement that "at present, the theft of our scooters in Mexico City is the biggest challenge."

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wLyNE TIL Roman Fathers Could Sell Their Kids Into Slavery – But Only Three Times
x6Omg TIL that some researchers estimate the chance of a global catastrophe caused by AI to be 30%
Oo9P7 TIL that in the 1970s, an unemployed haulage contractor named Arthur Hickey proposed to turn the Titanic into an iceberg using liquid nitrogen in order to raise her to the surface. It was calculated that this would have required half a million tons of liquid nitrogen.
6E197 TIL during Grover Cleveland’s election campaign, it emerged that he had a possible illegitimate child. The campaign said it was true and that Grover had done his best in dealing with it. The mother disagreed- she said Grover had assaulted her, then had the baby taken from her and had her committed.
VMRp TIL That the recent Japanese Earthquake shortened the day by 1.8 microseconds and shifted the Earth’s axis by 6.5 inches.