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TIL that mapmakers used to plant fictitious streets in their maps, so that if a person copied their map, they could point out the replication of the fake street to prove copyright infringement.

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N7edE TIL Night vision goggles are green because because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than any other color.
b9g94 TIL that Bruce Willis is partially deaf in his left ear due to some of the loud explosions and gunfire while filming Die Hard. “Due to an accident on the first Die Hard, I suffer two-thirds partial hearing loss in my left ear and have a tendency to say, ‘Whaaa?’” Willis said.
e0aDD TIL that 78% of NFL players are broke within 2 years of retirement, usually due to joblessness or divorce. About 60% of former NBA players are broke within 5 years of retirement.
Ooep4 TIL writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ray Bradbury, actors Christopher Reeve and Linda Hamilton, and astronaut Alan Shepard are all descendants of Mary Bradbury, a woman tried and sentenced in the Salem Witch Trials who escaped death and lived to age 85.
60MX TIL that homeless children in Miami in the 1990s developed an elaborate folk mythology that was spread by oral tradition.