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TIL Google hires camels to capture “street view” in deserts

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6PEJ TIL that the world’s most powerful commercially available flashlight can be used to start fires.
On0X TIL That if Wal-Mart were a sovereign nation, it would be China’s fifth or sixth largest export market.
xVOlo TIL that when trying to expand into the China in the late 1980s, KFC mistakenly mistranslated their famous “It’s Finger Lickin’ Good” slogan to “Eat Your Fingers Off”
QJb6L TIL that the Pietà sculpture of Michelangelo Buonarroti was the only work he ever signed. He only did it after hearing someone claiming the sculpture is theirs. He later regretted his outburst of pride and swore never to sign another work of his hands again.
BZpk TIL that catnip is 10 times as effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the common ingredient in most bug sprays.