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TIL Mexico is officially called the United Mexican States.

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ZvDo TIL Conrad Heyer, born in 1749, is this earliest-born person ever to be photographed
XNAr TIL the honeymoon is a relic of marriage by capture, based on the practice of the husband going into hiding with his wife to avoid reprisals from her relatives, with the intention that the woman would be pregnant by the end of the month.
ADxLw TIL of Planet Nine - A hypothetical, 10x Earth-sized planet within our solar system that orbits around the sun every 15k years. This hypothesis is currently supported by Jim Green, director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and professor Tom Levenson of MIT.
b6Wx4 TIL: Egypt has a city called 6th of October
awgg0 TIL of John Wojtowicz, who robbed a bank to fund his partner’s gender reassignment surgery. In prison, they made a movie about the crime and he used the money he earned from selling the rights to finally pay for her surgery.