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TIL that the first visit of a sitting US President to Mexico didn’t occur until 1909

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9wWl7 TIL more people attended a 3rd division football match in the U.K. than the Super Bowl in most years
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58wB TIL that in 1992 a storm caused 29,000 rubber ducks to be washed off a container ship. The knowledge gained from studying the duck’s movement revolutionised our understanding of the ocean currents. Many of these ducks are still believed to be floating in the seas today.
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