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TIL Mexico's official name is 'United Mexican States' and it has 31 states.

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ANk8g TIL many Irish weddings include playing the song “Rock the Boat” which starts a group dance where everyone sits on the dance floor, legs splayed in a conga line pretending to row a boat
oRwZr TIL a study tested 23 human testes & 47 pet dog testes and found microplastics in every sample. The human testicles had a plastic concentration almost three times higher than that found in the dog testes: 330 micrograms per gram of tissue compared with 123 micrograms.
1E84 TIL The machines that harvest, process and slice potatoes are unable to tell the difference between them and golf balls, occasionally resulting in golf ball potato crisps/chips making it into packets.
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