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TIL that in 2006, a man escaped from a US federal prison by mailing himself out

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YpADZ TIL the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan was built on Lake Texcoco, which was engineered to segregate freshwater & saltwater with dikes to maintain a drinking water supply. The Spanish drained the lake to build Mexico City, resulting in water shortages. Mexico City sank 10m over the past century.
9YeRp TIL that the Latin name of a ferret is Mustelidae putorius furo, which translates to “stinky mouse thief”
D1w8V TIL the most fuel-efficient vehicle in the history of the world is currently a car that gets the equivalent of 14,573 miles per gallon and could drive to any point on the globe using the energy in one gallon of gas.
Zj0a TIL another human could be living inside you. Many people are biological “chimera” without realising it, because their body absorbed an unborn sibling soon after conception.
epDwn TIL the Hindi/Sanskrit word that Ancient Indians (~5000 BCE) used and still use for "Study of Geography" and it is "Bhoo-Gol", literally "Bhoo" = Land or Earth and "Gol/Gola" = Round