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TIL the lost vans in Cars (2006) are a reference to the Death Valley Germans

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OjjX TIL on Halloween in 1919, kids broke windows, overturned garbage cans, rushed street cars and burnt down a barn and the police responded by negotiating with teenagers, re-righting garbage cans and making sure all kids went home to bed. No arrests were made.
loJVr TIL Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps (fake streets, towns) so they can tell when someone copies them. They are called map traps.
4Xee5 TIL of an ancient city, Cahokia, which was settled circa 600 AD and by 1250 was bigger than London. The cultural heritage site is located 8 miles from the Gateway Arch, in Illinois. The city was made up of pyramids and large earthen mounds, and “Woodhenge,” which marked the soltices and equinoxes.
b1nN TIL In the 1950’s, during the height of the Red Scare, Einstein offered to appear as a character witness in defense of W.E.B. Du Bois who was being indicted by the feds for failing to register as a “foreign agent.” Einstein’s offer made the judge drop the case.
xA41 TIL human life expectancy has increased more in the last 50 years than in the previous 200,000 years of human existence.