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TIL Mexico City is sinking 8 inches per year

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awa1b TIL about the deadly Poison Fire Coral fungus (native to Japan, Korea, and Australia) that can cause the brain to shrink if consumed.
0wvoy TIL Since the introduction of the smart phone depression rates among teens has increased more than 60% and suicide rates have increased 56%.
YpoM7 TIL about the Great Dying, Earth's most severe known extinction event, which happened more than 250 million years ago. During this event, around 81% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct.
AQmx TIL Pixar credits its success to its anti-Disney approach: no songs, no happy village, no love story.
p8074 TIL : Belgrade (capital city of Serbia) has one of the greatest strategic positions, in fact so big, that there were 115 battles for it and it was destroyed about 40 times.