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TIL BMW used to offer Flame Throwers on their cars to stop car jacking in South Africa

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Wk4BL TIL In 2016, an 18-karat solid gold toilet named "America" was installed in an American museum where many waited in line to use it. In 2019 in the UK, it was stolen within the same month it was installed.
wMeW TIL that the US Navy used the moon as the first “relay” satellite (i.e. sending signals from ship to moon to land and vice versa)
GY10j TIL the Mayans revered bees so much that they had funerals for them.
QM86 TIL that 1 in 8 people who have ever lived are alive today
78ExO TIL there is a brand of Sake called Nagasaki that looks suspiciously like a bomb.