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TIL - Contrary of what everybody thinks, if you park your car at a dark spot at night, the chances of theft are smaller, because thieves don't like to use lights.

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yQJep TIL of Salvador Alvarenga, who was lost at sea for a world record 438 days after he and a friend were hit by a storm whilst fishing in 2012. He encountered a cargo ship during the ordeal that didn't save him, and was sued upon his return home by his friend's family for eating him to stay alive
0dkDy TIL that 8 temples of the Roman goddess Minerva (Athena) had been built in Guatemala. Starting with the first one in 1901 under orders of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera, who wanted to create and promote a Cult of Minerva, with its own feast day on his birthday.
rNBrx TIL scientists made snails remember something that never happened to them
NLLb TIL On April 18, 1930, the BBC announced, “There is no news today,” and played piano music instead.
Wkxwo TIL that the US president's Cadillac One (aka The Beast) is equipped with 8 inch thick bulletproof doors, an oxygen system, a night-vision camera, tear-gas bombs, a shotgun, and pints of the president’s blood type.