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TIL: Mexico City is sinking as much as 15 inches a year!

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xJNw TIL North Korea’s literacy rate is 100%, according to the CIA
k694 TIL the linux OS “Ubuntu” has a Christian edition with special softwares for catholics. There is also a satanic edition with free metal music
kOKlE TIL about Taxi Dance Halls of the late 1920s and early '30s where lonely men looking for human contact paid 10 cents a song to dance with women for a few minutes. In 1931, there were at least 100 taxi dance halls in New York, visited by up to 50,000 men each week.
BrKeL TIL in 1931, an Australian Aboriginal girl called Molly Craig was taken from her parents and imprisoned in a Native Reserve. She escaped the next day with her 11-year-old sister and 8-year-old cousin. The journey took 9 weeks and 1600 KM. In 1940, she escaped again, with her 18-month-old daughter.
YpPOG TIL: the on-screen version of Superman originally fought for "truth and justice" (early 1940s) then "truth, tolerance and justice" (late 1940s) then "truth, justice and the American way" (1950s)