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

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4Ze5 TIL the second Shah of Iran built a marble slide for his underground baths that was specifically designed for women in his harem to use to slide “into the arms of their lord and master before being playfully dunked in a pool.”
mxDlM TIL Martin Luther King Jr. was a follower of Gandhi and believed in the non violence method to get rid of oppression.
XENGr TIL ‘Toxic positivity’ is the lack of acknowledgement all your emotions, like anger or sadness. It posits that positive psychology places too much importance on upbeat thinking, while shunting challenging and difficult experiences to the side
ZeGv TIL that there was once a prehistoric species of guinea pig that was the size of a buffalo and had a bite that rivaled that of the modern tiger
K7Pw TIL that, in April 2011, two competing algorithms on Amazon.com each kept altering the price that they were selling a book about flies for based on how much the other was charging. After ten days of price warring, the price of the book had climbed to $23.7 million.