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TIL That when a UK autoshop mechanic saw the Google Street View car coming his way, he staged a murder scene. Police paid the shop a visit a year later after the image was finally spotted on Street View.

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oBkpR TIL: The Great Pyramid was once encased in limestone and would have appeared perfectly smooth and blindingly white.
9nYM TIL Scientists from South Africa discovered a formula that calculates how likely a frog is to eat another frog. “For every one millimeter increase in body size, a frog is 2.8 percent more likely to eat other frogs.”
x06o TIL in 1971 someone in Pennsylvania tried to sue Satan for having “threatened him, caused him misery, impeded his course in life, and generally precipitated his downfall.” The case was dismissed, partly because it couldn’t be shown that Satan lived in the court’s jurisdiction.
DQXxP TIL that before the rise of the Nazis in Germany, the Swastika was a common symbol associated with good health and wellbeing, appearing on RAF planes, fruit packaging and even Coca-Cola merchandise.
6E6QX TIL the single largest institutional user of fossil fuels is the US Military.