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TIL that during his tenure as Bogota mayor, Antanas Mockus hired 20 mimes to follow and mock those ignoring pedestrian and traffic laws. The program was so popular, he hired 400 more.

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x6EE5 TIL that the desert scenes in the movie Ishtar were filmed in the actual Sahara Desert, instead of the Southwestern U.S., because Columbia's parent company Coca-Cola had money in Morocco it could not repatriate.
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eGGL TIL the Goldman family was given legal ownership of OJ Simpson’s cancelled book “If I Did It.” They republished with a new cover hiding the word “If” so the title appeared to be “I Did It.”
ADNwl TIL when a hippo's teeth are worn it will die of starvation