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TIL A map making company in the 1930s placed a made up an hamlet (village) in their maps as a copyright trap. Years later the village started showing up on Rand McNally maps. The originator of the map sued for copyright infringement, but in fact locals and government had adopted and used the name.

KKe9 TIL that the estimated life expectancy for HIV Positive people in the US and Canada is actually higher than the average population.
loLR7 TIL that china is consuming more pork than ever before
OobXL TIL there is an extinct species of bandicoot whose scientific name is 'Crash Bandicoot'
R5rWl TIL Jenette Goldstein played Vasquez in Aliens and John Conner's Stepmom in Terminator 2
PYvYG TIL the giraffes are dying. They are facing a silent extinction.