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TIL Google invented a fake town and placed it on Google Maps. It is believed that this was a form of DRM to let Google know who was copying their maps.

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nMAG TIL Fidel Castro and his entourage stayed at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, a centre of the Black community, during his 1960 New York City visit. There he felt African Americans would be more sympathetic to his cause. His stay in Harlem prompted many other leaders to visit the neighborhood
wrAP TIL that on a 1983 episode of Three’s Company, John Ritter’s scrotum falls out of his shorts. Viewer complained in 2001 and it was edited out. Ritter’s quote on this: “I’ve requested that they air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t.”
BJOK TIL when a woman is attracted to a man, she speaks in a higher pitch than she does normally.
9Yx5p TIL farmers only need to leave a door open for five minutes for the farm to qualify as "free-range". Apart from the "open door", no other criteria for environmental quality, number of birds, or space per bird, are defined.
RkYw TIL the Dalai Lama supports abortion in cases where the child will be retarded or if the birth will create serious problems for the parent.