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TIL the country we refer to as ‘Mexico’ is actually called the 'United Mexican States’.

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Z8EbG TIL Singapore will pay couples the equivalent of $120,000 to have 2 babies. It’s called a baby bonus and it’s meant to fight the quickly dropping fertility rate in the country.
8eXKP TIL in the Battle of Arausio, the Roman army was defeated to the Cimbri and Tuetons, and lost about 120,000 soldiers, but the two consuls who led the army survived.
8LaG TIL there is an electric bell in Oxford University that has been ringing almost continously for 175 years.
1aNLD TIL a sanitary inventor named Thomas Crapper improved the U-bend pipe, and patented the floating ballcock to prevent indoor toilets from exploding.
eW1L TIL that in 2000 the major motorcycle companies of the world reached a gentlemen’s agreement to end a speed war of one-upmanship to try make the worlds fastest production bike, as they feared speeds would escalate to extremely dangerous speeds before it would end. A limit of 186 mph was agreed.