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TIL in 2006 a Texas woman's house was demolished by accident because Google Maps provided the wrong location to the demolition crew. Google Maps resolved two houses' addresses to the same location, and the demolition crew didn't verify the street name was correct.

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Qkvd TIL: That in 1955, Quaker Oats Company gave away legal deeds to tiny parcels of land in Alaska in boxes of cereals
kZE1 TIL that a man in Florida ran to his brothers bedroom after hearing him scream only to find the entire room and his brother swallowed by a sinkhole. They were never able to find the body.
6LQ TIL that a 1,000 year old “fish trap” made of stones was found off the British coast with Google Maps
m1ZaE TIL that the acronym “R.I.P.” has been engraved on tombstones since at least the fifth century. “Rest in Peace” is the English translation of a Latin phrase with the same acronym.
VM74m TIL that the earth accumulates ~40,000 tonnes of space dust every year.