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TIL that the perpetrators of the “Diamond Heist of the Century” got past 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations – and to this day no one knows how

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grKy7 TIL that a type of Japanese water beetle can, when eaten by a frog, swim through the frog's digestive tract and escape through its anus
p8DG4 TIL of the sitdown strike from 36’-37’ which an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations. Costing GM close to 3 billion in today’s market
mxyGR TIL a woman quit her job to search for her border collie who escaped from a hotel room during a thunderstorm while on vacation in Kalispell, Montana. After 57 days of searching and posting hundreds of flyers around town, she finally found ‘Katie’ who was starving, but otherwise OK.
PbKL TIL that a father wrote 4 self-published novels about James Potter and his generation of wizards. They have been sanctioned by J.K. Rowling and are offered for free online.
Wwo8 TIL that the technical name for the division sign (÷) is “Obelus”