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TIL Googlewhacking is a challenge/activity where you enter two words in the search bar for Google and try to end up with only one search result. There are over 482,000 googlewhacks recorded.

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YA9x TIL that a Minnesota burglar was caught after he logged into his own Facebook account on a computer in the house he was robbing. The homeowner returned to find the perp’s account still logged in
wLV1M TIL that the place were Julius Caeser is believed to have been killed is today a cat sanctuary
lobJa TIL the claim that Space Invaders caused a national 100-yen coin shortage in Japan in the late 70s is a myth. It was largely due to low production of the coin as metal composition changed - copper-nickel instead of silver - made people hoard the silver coins.
Br4ab TIL Officials in Athens, Greece conducted helicopter & satellite audits to determine less than 0.02% of residents claimed their pools to avoid paying taxes. Greeks consider not paying tax to be ‘Patriotic’, a nod to a time when they were ruled by the Ottoman Turks, almost 200 years ago.
6ep7 TIL that wasabi was originally served with sushi and dishes with raw fish because it aided in killing harmful bacteria and parasites that could be present in raw seafood.