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TIL four rivers named Mat, Ta, Po, and Ni merge to form the Mattaponi river.

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WkEE4 TIL the classic VW Beetle was produced in Mexico from 1955 until as late as 2003, where it was used as a taxi. The Mexican government effectively ended the Beetle's production because street gangs would often raid two-door cars as the passenger in the back couldn't escape.
9WBX TIL a woman built a “Tree Troll” as a tribute to her deceased father. It’s made almost entirely out of paper mache
yVg1J TIL scurvy was so common during the Age of Sail that shipowners and governments assumed a 50% death rate from the disease for their sailors on any major voyage.
nWvB TIL it may be possible to colonize the three farthest gas giants with floating cities in their atmospheres.
R7gEa TIL of German serial killer Karl Denke, in the 1910’s killed upwards of 40 people, and processed their flesh into pickled “pork”, their hair into shoelaces, and their skin into belts, and other gruesome items that he then sold at markets and door-to-door.