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TIL that a small town in Michigan organizes betting each and every year on when a car will fall through lake ice. It's done for charity.

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wWe8 TIL that Islamic architects invented Girih tiles — a set of tiles that can completely cover an unlimited surface in a non-periodic way — five centuries before the modern science rediscovered it as Penrose tiling.
lkl5 TIL that editors will often add fictitious words to dictionaries in order to “catch” others copying off them. Cartographers also do this.
yVbme TIL that the US has a higher suicide rate than Japan
nD87 TIL that if you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world. Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one “founder,” an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes.
DQNkv TIL that Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”) released a documentary in 2008, “Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?”, in which he correctly deduced that bin Laden was hiding in Abbotabad, Pakistan. After bin Laden’s death, it was revealed that he had a copy of the documentary in his video collection.