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TIL A man created a fake restaurant on TripAdvisor and asked around for good reviews. Eventually, the fake restaurant was the #1 restaurant in London, and was being called up 100s of times daily for bookings. For a day, the man set up a “cafe” in his backyard and served frozen food to rave reviews.

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nWvNB TIL that the first recorded organism to reproduce sexually is a red algae called “Bangiomorpha pubescens” found in 1.2 billion-year-old rock deposits.
R7Mj4 TIL that a holocaust denial group promised $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to deliberately kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money plus an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
nWBgB TIL that the Mashco Piro and the Yine were once a single Peruvian tribe that was split in 1894 when the rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald enslaved it. The Mashco Piro descended from the people who managed to escape, while the Yine descended from the ones who failed.
ne6ro TIL Sylvester Stallone was given the role in Beverly Hills Cop before Eddie Murphy. He rewrote the script, replacing the comedy with action and renamed him "Axel Cobretti" but it would be too expensive so he agreed to back out. His next film was "Cobra", considered his version of Beverly Hills Cop.
ANL7a TIL hippos can defecate into rivers so much that their feces builds up and kills fish through hypoxia, or lack of oxygen. In the Mara River, about 4,000 hippos poop out more than 9 tons of dung each day. Hippo feces also leaves behind chemicals such as ammonium and sulfide, which is harmful to fish.