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TIL there is a British version of Jersey Shore called Geordie Shore, it spans 20 seasons with two seasons per year, plus special edition seasons.

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YpADZ TIL the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan was built on Lake Texcoco, which was engineered to segregate freshwater & saltwater with dikes to maintain a drinking water supply. The Spanish drained the lake to build Mexico City, resulting in water shortages. Mexico City sank 10m over the past century.
9wLB TIL only 6 people attended Thomas Paine’s funeral, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. because of his ridicule of Christianity.
x6ERB TIL the mayflower ship is believed to have been scrapped for timber and assembled into a barn in Buckinghamshire, England
4kKdg TIL Audrey Hepburn was the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a British Academy Film Award for a single film, which was the romantic comedy "Roman Holiday."
OXg6 TIL that the second controller can control the ducks in Duck Hunt