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TIL: A fake restaurant, 'The Shed at Dulwich', became the highest rated restaurant in London on tripadvisor, received several offers from various companies and was only open for one night to a few guests. They served microvawed food.

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XDmr TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.
LQ7QZ TIL that in 1991 in County Durham, England, a TV crew was filming a confrontation between council officials and a land owner, when the land owner shot and killed a council planning officer. The TV reporter also got shot in the arm and a police officer got shot in the thigh.
KOY6 TIL: Methuselah, from the Bible, is accredited as being the oldest person to have ever lived, dying at age 969 years. But it is thought that this is a mistranslation and that he was 969 lunar months old when he died (78.5 years old) since early Judaic tribes used lunar months to gauge time.
J1OmQ TIL: That there's a specie of snakes that resemble giant worms called Amphisbaenia.
Bg1je TIL that two women, Jennifer and Sarah Hart, adopted six children and attempted to present themselves online as a wholesome, perfect family unit. However, they were actually very abusive towards the children, and when case workers began investigating, they killed the entire family and themselves.