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TIL that Mexico City has more museums than any other city in the world.

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R5dZj TIL that the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba 🇦🇼, Bonaire 🇧🇶 & Curaçao 🇨🇼 speak a Portuguese-based Creole with heavy Spanish influence called Papiamento as their main & most spoken language, with 400.000 total speakers. Dutch is a 2nd or 3rd language for most locals.
neMLo TIL despite having had only one Nobel laureate among the population, the Faroe Islands have the most Nobel laureates per capita, as the whole territory has a population of around 50k people.
JNAj TIL There are studies proving that red light cameras are admittedly pure profit, do nothing to cease traffic accidents, protect citizens, or allow safety.
dDrBK TIL in the U.S. 43% of petroleum is used for Gasoline
b9Jpa TIL that Don Rickles passed away before he was able to record any dialogue for Toy Story 4. Rather than replacing him, Disney reviewed 25 years of material from the first three films, video games, and other media; they were able to assemble enough dialogue to cover the entire film.