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TIL a man started spray painting giant penis’ around potholes which forced his city to start filling them in after not doing it for years

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loAkV TIL Kevin O'Connor of This Old House fame, was a senior vice president at Bank of America. The producers approached him for the new gig after they shot an episode at Kevin's house.
grD94 TIL two prison escapees from Utah were arrested by UC Berkeley police officers after they claimed to be from San Francisco by saying "I'm from Frisco", which aroused the officers' suspicions because "no one from here ever says that."
rRMJe TIL that the TV show Lost, which was about a plane crash, used pieces of wreckage from the plane in making the show's score.
N7dX1 TIL In 1943 smog formed so suddenly and severely in the Los Angeles area that residents believed they were being attacked by Japanese chemical weapons
OoKW4 TIL that when flatworms go to space, they can grow two heads. Usually a flatworm will regrow its head and tail after they are cut off, but one with its head and tail removed regrew two heads and a second mouth. (The flatworm's mouth is located on its belly.)