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TIL much of the widespread geopolitical upheaval that took place throughout 1991, including the breakups of Yugoslavia and the USSR, began shortly after Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego finished taping its first season, rendering most of the season's content obsolete.

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P1jPO TIL that sea otters have a favorite rock they use to break open shellfish, and they keep it in a pouch under their armpits
0derN TIL that Jerome Kerviel was the world's most indebted man, owning $6.3 billion dollars to the Société Générale.
7BdO TIL that octopuses are very intelligent, and that in 1875 an octopus at the Brighton Aquarium would escape its tank when the guards weren’t around, eat the lump fish in another tank, then go back to its own tank before the aquarium opened
KOgV6 TIL Around 10% of marriages worldwide are between first or second cousins. In Pakistan, around 50-60% of marriages are with first cousins
Lk1j9 TIL during prohibition, merchants would sell "bricks" of grape concentrate with a label that warned consumers not to mix the concentrate with yeast, water, and sugar and age the mixture for seven days, because "an illegal alcoholic beverage will result".