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TIL roughly 3% of German houses on Google Street View are blurred because their owners opted out of the program

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JYyxQ TIL the Queen's Engineering Society's motto "Quis Dolor Cui Dolium" translates to "Who suffers who has a cask of wine?" This motto was devised in 1963 to lend some Latin dignity to the Society's informal English motto, "What the hell as long as there's free beer."
YoWA TIL that Walt Disney made a propaganda video showing how children in Nazi-Germany were indoctrinated.
DQBeV TIL that our brains and faces aren't centred
VBK5G TIL that as of 2019 it's more expensive to mint $1 coins than to keep $1 bills in circulation, because bills are getting used less and less and thus are lasting longer.
wb8J TIL - There is a secret room behind Mount Rushmore designed to store US treasured documents