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TIL that there is a law in São Paulo that prohibits advertising such as that of outdoor posters.

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PJbE TIL there is a large underground tunnel system connecting over twenty buildings in Houston. In the tunnels there is everything from food courts to dry cleaners.
awRlZ TIL that beavers build dams based on the sound of flowing water, even if raised in captivity or in the absence of actual water.
4x9w TIL a Black Robin named Old Blue has become the mother of her entire species when she was the last fertile female in a group of 5 Robins. There are now 250 Black Robins on the Chatham Islands, and have raised their status from Critically Endangered to Endangered.
Alga TIL that Jeffrey Jones, best known for playing principal Edward Rooney in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ has been arrested on multiple occasions for employing a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexual photos and subsequently failing to update his sex offender registration
WmPX TIL Jim Carrey offered Nicolas Cage to co-star with him in ‘Dumb and Dumber’ (1994), however Cage wanted to do a much smaller movie instead called Leaving Las Vegas. 'Leaving Las Vegas’ (1995) ended up earning Nicolas Cage an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1996.