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TIL For over twenty years, Marcio Matolias has lived in a sandcastle on the beach in Rio de Janeiro.

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xVWXk TIL about Bluefields, an English-speaking town in Spanish-speaking Nicaragua, which was named after a Dutch-Jewish pirate, was previously part of the Mosquito (Miskito) Kingdom, and was only connected to the rest of the country by road in 2019
YpplA TIL The crypt of the United States Capitol Building, which currently houses the Magna Carta Case and various statues, was once used as bicycle parking.
oRMML TIL there is a unit of measurement used to measure the distance to celestial bodies based on the distance between the Earth and the Sun
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