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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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dDwVZ TIL French is Cameroon’s most widely spoken language, but only 56% of Cameroonians speak it
Axbd TIL human egg and sperm cells can be created from the skin cells of any two humans, regardless of gender, allowing for reproduction
Oo5E4 TIL that Prince Philip was not allowed to invite his three sisters to his wedding to Princess (now Queen) Elizabeth in 1947, because they were all married to German noblemen, and this would have been considered inappropriate in postwar Britain.
x676B TIL How Smoking Increased When TV/Broadcast Advertising of Cigarettes Was Banned
m1drP Today I learned, as a kid Kirk Hammet from Metallica saw his neighbor fuck his dog