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TIL that an Italian mob pulled an elaborate heist involving olive oil, using adulterated and chemically treated oils and labelling their containers as extra virgin. The profit margin of this heist was said to have “three times the profit margin of cocaine.”

yQo08 TIL before the filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón had Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson write essays about their characters. Watson turned in a 16 page essay, Radcliffe gave a single page, and Grint forgot to turn his in.
5V5aB TIL the 2004 earthquake/tsunami caused a 1,500m high ridge along the fault to collapse, generating landslides. One landslide consisted of a single block of rock some 100m high and 2 km long. The momentum of the water also dragged massive slabs of rock, each weighing millions of tons, as far as 10km.
R6pl TIL Roger Taylor was so fond of his song “I’m in Love with My Car” that he urged Freddie Mercury to allow it to be the B-side to “Bohemian Rhapsody”, to the point where he locked himself in a cupboard until Mercury agreed. The song ended up generating equal royalties just because it was the B-side.
VMOg4 TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to about 3%.
oZdK TIL mosquitoes survive collisions with rain drops by clinging to the droplet and riding it for a while.