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TIL the Aztecs called armadillos āyōtōchtli, meaning “turtle-rabbits”

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vPPnD TIL that Antoni Gaudí, one of Spain's greatest ever architects, once got hit by a tram. People who walked by him assumed he was a common beggar and ignored him until it was too late. He died of these injuries
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