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TIL that Michelin - a company which awards prestigious star ratings to restaurants - go to extraordinary lengths to maintain the anonymity of their restaurant inspectors, even advising them not to tell their parents about their line of work.

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Bg4br TIL pandas are one of the few animals with opposable thumbs - but the "thumb" develops from a wrist bone, so when looking at pandas, it looks as though they have six fingers
5W49 TIL of John Joe Gray, a fugitive who has been holed up with his family on a ranch in Texas since 2000. The sheriff has refused to attempt to arrest him for fear of “going up there and getting one of my young deputies killed.”
d8r7E TIL that the Pledge of Allegiance was compulsory in US schools until a Jehovah Witness Father appealed to the court that saluting the flag in such a manner made it a "graven image," and by forcing his children to do so was an attack on this family's right to freedom of religion and speech.
XR0Q TIL the Simpsons were made yellow so when people were flipping through channels, they’d see a flash of yellow and know The Simpsons was on.
yZRl TIL a man received an emergency satellite locator beacon as a present, didn’t read the instructions and ended up triggering 9 false alarm Search and Rescue deployments over the course of 12 weeks.