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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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9YEoQ TIL before 1975, the BBC overwrote or destroyed old show tapes. Hundreds of Doctor Who episodes were thought lost forever, until a worldwide hunt began to turn them up—e.g. 2 in a London Mormon Church, and a goldmine 9 in Nigeria (employees had ignored instructions to burn them). 97 remain unfound.
j9Ya TIL of two students who attacked a pensioner in his own home and was let off from jail time or from being expelled from university because they “had come from an “excellent background” and “had their lives ahead of them””
mxeDY TIL In 1992, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry suggested the idea of a Star Trek sitcom featuring Lwaxana Troi
8MBV TIL that Kate Winslet, who played Rose in Titanic, heavily dislikes “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion and admits that it makes her feel “like throwing up.”
rJAW TIL The United States still executes prisoners by firing squad. The last prisoner executed by firing squad was in 2010 in Utah.