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TIL that every station on the Mexico City Metro has a unique symbol in order to help illiterate passengers navigate throughout the system.

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d85rQ TIL Richard Kuhn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins". Kuhn collaborated with high-ranking Nazi officials, denounced Jewish co-workers in 1936, and is no longer considered a suitable role model by the Society of German Chemists
JYL8m TIL of the Kaningara tribe of Papua New Guinea, who used to use bamboo knives to cut the flesh of boys and young men, to fill them with the power of the crocodile spirit.
6EKlw TIL that duplo and lego are compatible
R1o9 TIL Less than 5% of the population has a biological disdain for all music, it is called musical anhedonia.
jA8X TIL that 2% of people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge survive the fall. One man even jumped off for “fun”.