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TIL map makers will often add fake streets, or even sometimes an entire fictitious town, to their maps in order to catch copyright violators who steal their work.

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0wNxv TIL that Adam Rainer was born a dwarf (measuring 4'8" at the age of nineteen) and died a giant (measuring 7'8'' at the age of fifty-one). He is the only person in history to have been classified as both.
woEeY TIL Audrey Hepburn's mother met Hitler and wrote favorable articles about him for the British Union of Fascists
kORW5 TIL Peter the Great's godson, Abraham Petrovich Gannibal, was an African born, freed slave who was a military and civil engineering genius, who not only fought successfully for the Russian Empire but also for the Kingdom of France.
4gYb TIL Russell Crowe was born in New Zealand not Australia. However, despite living most of his life in Australia, identifying as Australian, and appearing on Australian stamps, he was refused Australian citizenship in 2006 and 2013.
dDwLE TIL: The Greek intellectual Hypatia was accused of witchcraft in March 415 CE where a mob seized her from her carriage, dragged her into a church, carved out her eyes and her living flesh with oyster shells, then tore her limb from limb.