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TIL 98.5% of crimes in Mexico go unpunished.

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BrA8b TIL about the the US Navy ship USS Johnston. At 4 miles (21,180 feet) down, it is the world's deepest shipwreck to ever be surveyed. Due to lack of oxygen at that depth it is in almost pristine condition.
OoQWR TIL the CEO of HSBC in Taiwan walked his lesbian employee down the aisle in 2017 after her parents refused to go to the wedding
4X9rX TIL that there are active subglacial tidal lakes under the ice in Antarctica.
neYK9 TIL that “Pap” as in pap smear is short for Papanicolaou, the doctor who discovered this procedure to detect early signs of cervical cancer.
4k8Ow TIL that prior to reunification, there were two regions in East Germany that were out of range of West German TV broadcasts and were sarcastically nicknamed the "Valley of the Clueless" (Tal der Ahnungslosen)