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TIL Mexico City is sinking 8 inches per year

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N7XD6 TIL pine nuts come from pine cones
9kMM TIL Pixar’s ‘Cars’ made $10 billion in merchandise sales over 5 years - hence the sequel.
noao TIL After nearly 100 years of service the M2 .50 caliber machine gun is being upgraded and replaced with the new M2A1.
GYkj4 TIL the skeletons of 40,000 people were used to build a chapel in Prague. The site became popular in the 13th century when an abbot sprinkled “holy soil” from Jerusalem on the cemetery grounds.
l9DN TIL between 2010-2012, DNA testing found that over half of fish labeled and sold as “Tuna” in the USA was NOT tuna. 87% of Red Snapper sold were also found to be completely mislabeled.