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TIL In 2015 Carlos Slim’s companies accounted for approximately 40% of the listings on Mexico’s stock exchange and his net worth was equivalent to about 6% of Mexico's gross domestic product.

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mxAvO TIL about Shavarsh Karapetyan was a world-record holder in finswimming. In 1976, a bus with 90 people crashed into a lake, he rescued over 20 people by repeatedly diving, was hospitalized for 3 weeks, suffered irreversible lung damage, and set another world record at the next USSR championship.
paeG TIL that modern English surnames were given between the 12th and 14th centuries for taxation purposes in England, and were based on parentage (eg Donaldson), location (eg Wood, Lane), personal attributes (eg Short, Long) and occupation (Smith, Miller).
5QpP TIL That first time possession of less than 25g of marijuana is neither a misdemeanor, nor punishable by any jail time in New York state. The only punishment is a $100 fine.
ekaE TIL The lemon is actually a hybrid between a sour orange and a citron.
b6lmZ TIL about Ahn Changho. He and his wife were the first married Korean couple to immigrate to the US in 1902. He is credited with co-writing South Korea’s national anthem, and two of his sons, Philip Ahn and Ralph Ahn, went on to be actors in Hollywood