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TIL that the iconic horses on the Kentucky licence plates in the 1990s were based on a logo of a horse park in Lexington which itself was based on a picture of semi-wild horses taken by a German photographer in the 1960s. The base was withdrawn when the photographer sued for copyright infringement.

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Ye8x TIL Ellie Kemper (Erin from The Office) came from a family of millionaire bankers and philanthropists. She went to Princeton and Oxford before pursuing comedy from the ground up.
a8EkM TIL about Inspector Closeau, the world’s only known pink manta ray, first discovered in 2015 in waters off of Australia and named for the detective in the Pink Panther series
pYJbZ TIL why insects circle lights at night: They evolved to become masters of flight by relying on the brightest thing they see — the sky — to know which way is up and keep their back toward it. At night, they confuse artificial light for the sky, ending up trapped in a cycle trying to stay orientated.
Q8rd TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
8e79G TIL Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the few major European cities with a Catholic Church, synagogue, mosque and Eastern Orthodox church in the same neighborhood