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TIL: Mexico City is sinking as much as 15 inches a year!
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TIL Though Jews make up a mere 0.25 percent of the world’s population they account, for 27 percent of all American Nobel Prize winners, 25 percent of all ACM Turing Award winners for computer science, and 50 percent of the globe’s chess champions.
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TIL that there is a fungal genus "Phallus" consisting entirely of penis-shaped mushrooms, commonly known as "stinkhorns."
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TIL in 2015, when Daniel Craig was asked that would he do another Bond film after Spectre, he said he would “rather break this glass and slash my wrists” and would only come back “for the money”. A year later he apologized and said “If I were to stop doing it, I would miss it terribly."
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TIL that Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers was not only Nihilist # 2 in The Big Lebowski, he was also Marty McFly’s rival Needles in Back to the Future Part II and III.
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TIL the Statue of Liberty's torch has been closed for over 100 years due to damage sustained from a WW1 German spy attack.