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TIL that Costa Rica does not have traditional street addresses, but instead use distances from landmarks to guide taxis, guests, mail etc.

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gMVnb TIL The Mesopotamian Empire and the Babylonian Empire were the first civilizations to introduce the use of sanitary sewerage system.
9YO5X TIL former Manchester United player Patrice Evra has 23 brothers and sisters
XlRj TIL that human races do not exist taxonomically. A fixation index of 0.25 is required for a species to have various sub-species. Humans have a fixation index of 0.11, less than half of the required criteria of genetic diversity needed for the existence of sub-species or races.
gkjD TIL that there is an autonomous robot patrolling the Great Barrier Reef, finding destructive starfish and killing them by injecting them with poison
m1j7Y TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued those who downloaded them. The matter reached the FBI and The Pirate Bay collaborated with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.