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TIL Mexico City was built over the ancient Aztec Lake Texcoco which has caused many ecological problems for the region since it was artificially drained by man.

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RkVl TIL Fox gave George Lucas full merchandising rights for the original trilogy rather than raise his salary because they didn’t expect Star Wars to be successful.
KOe46 TIL of a band called Tout-à-Coup Jazz. Tout-à-Coup's guitarist Thomas Sankara became the President of Burkina Faso in 1983 before being killed in a military coup organised by the singer of Tout-à-Coup.
rRmve TIL of a woman who has won the Lottery four times since 1993. She was outed as a PhD of Statistics from Standford University and had figured out the pseudo-number generator for the distribution of the winning tickets. She won a total of $17million, and has since moved to Las Vegas.
4obg TIL the director Christopher Nolan recorded two separate commentary tracks for the DVD version of “Mememto” in order to mislead the audience. The alternate track is triggered every other time you play the audio commentary.
jNlmv TIL that newlywed couples who watched and discussed five movies about relationships over the period of a month reduced their three-year divorce or separation rate from 24% to 11%. That makes it as effective in reducing divorce rates as a 20-hour therapist-led early marriage counselling program