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TIL Self-driving cars can cruise to avoid paying to park. When you factor in electricity, depreciation, wear and tear and maintenance, cruising costs around 50 cents an hour. This is still cheaper than parking, even in many smaller towns.

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yVLQJ TIL that in 1979, Elf, a French oil compagny, lost over $150 million in a scam. Alain de Villegas, a Belgian Count, had led ELF officials to believe that a company had created a machine capable of detecting oil fields from the air. The scandal is known as the "Avions Renifleurs" ("Sniffer Planes").
MerK8 TIL It is perfectly legal to escape prison in Germany. The law dictates that it is human nature to want to escape, and successfully doing so will go unpunished.
WBO8 TIL there is a theory which says that the evolutionary path that lead to intelligent life was caused by apes that started eating magic mushrooms.
wjAM TIL bats represent about 20% of all mammal species worldwide
Oom6X TIL that during the Joker Pencil Trick scene in The Dark Knight was as dangerous as it looked. Charles Jarman, who played the Pencil Trick Thug, stated that he had to remove the pencil, in order to make it look realistic, before Joker (played by Heath Ledger) slammed his head on the table.