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TIL that Mexico City is sinking at a rate of up to 50cm a year

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BggYk TIL that the german city Wolfsburg was entirely built for the workers of the volkswagen car factory, one of the largest factories in the world, at just under 6.5 million m² (70 million sq ft.) the roofs of the factory combined are bigger than monaco
l7nra TIL that when a massive star goes supernova, it produces a flash of light so bright that can equal the combined light of every other star in the galaxy. One such event happened in 1054, it was so bright the light was visible during the day for a month and was still visible for 2 years afterwards.
dV4K TIL that Orsen Welles and Ernest Hemingway became great friends after getting into a fist-fight with each other in a theater:
EgyNd TIL I made a rap verse for Baby Shark 💀
QJDK9 TIL about the "Osaka Bang", where the citizens of Osaka in Japan will react and sometimes fall over if you pretend to shoot them