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TIL Mexico City is sinking 8 inches per year

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evwg TIL Helen Keller was a radical Socialist who detested Capitalism as “an intolerable system” that causes blindness and deafness.
8epVb TIL that a 2019 Union College study found that joining a fraternity in college lowered a student's GPA by 0.25 points, but also increased their future income by 36%.
m1xPY TIL Professional librarians date back to the 8th century BCE in Assyria. Also the Romans had libraries but not librarians, with the job performed by nonspecific scholars such as praetors or grammarians.
v1Ky7 TIL that in 2014, a Spanish 20-year-old university student forged police and secret service documents, infiltrated the king’s coronation ceremony, shook his hand, and then impersonated a government adviser to broker a lucrative business deal.
woGy7 TIL in 1987, a robbery suspect fled and hid in a movie theater. But he was so fascinated by the movie he was watching that he didn't notice the other patrons were evacuated before he was taken into custody. The movie was Robocop