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TIL Mexico City is built in a bowl with no natural escape for water. Floods in 1629 left the city underwater for 4 years.

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M7JWV TIL that the majority of recorded sloth deaths in Costa Rica are due to contact with electrical lines and poachers. Their claws also provide another; when hanging upside-down in a tree, they are held in place by the claws themselves and often do not fall down even if shot from below.
rnGW TIL that in Texas in 2009, a Craigslist escort took $150 from a man, refused to have sex, then got in a car and left. The man sprayed her car with his AK-47, killing her. He was acquitted because state law permits the “use of deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.”
N7r8P TIL upon leaving his role as president, George Washington gave America two pieces of advice: 1.) Avoid excessive political party spirit and geographical distinctions. 2.) In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances with other nations.
vP8MB TIL that there are several breeds of Chicken called Naked Neck, identified by complete lack of most plumage on the neck and head
p8QGp TIL a then unknown Bob Dylan starred in the television play “Madhouse on Castle Street” on the BBC in 1963. It was later junked and no copies have survived. It is considered a lost artwork.