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TIL Mexico City is sinking 8 inches per year
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TIL Comedian Spike Milligan’s wish to have his tomb stone read “I told you I was ill” was refused by the Chichester diocese. They compromised and wrote the same epitaph in Irish.
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TIL California once had the largest freshwater lake in the Western USA, Lake Tulare, which at its peak stretched from modern Fresno to Bakersfield. It was ultimately drained as the rivers feeding it were diverted for agriculture in the 19th and 20th century.
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TIL 10% of the people account for 60% of sales of alcoholic beverages
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TIL The Blue Lagoon Is A Manmade Spa Located Within A Lava Field In Iceland Supplied By Water Used In The Nearby Geothermal Power Station, Also Known To Heal Diseases Such As Rheumatoid, Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis.
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TIL of a soviet engineer named Adolf Tolkachev who from 1979-1985, leaked soviet military secrets to the CIA which saved the United States hundreds of millions of dollars in military research. He was therefore dubbed "The Billion Dollar Spy."