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TIL Half-Life 2 has a burnt corpse model textured using photos of a real dead and badly burnt body

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eplEk TIL in 2006 a Texas woman's house was demolished by accident because Google Maps provided the wrong location to the demolition crew. Google Maps resolved two houses' addresses to the same location, and the demolition crew didn't verify the street name was correct.
69enm TIL theres a Texas law that prohibits shooting a buffalo from the second floor of a hotel. This law is very specific, apparently allowing the shooting of buffalo from other locations.
rN56x TIL that the Dragon Ball Z villain Frieza, a galactic tyrant who destroys all life on planets so he can resell them at a profit, was inspired by real estate speculators during the Japanese asset price bubble in the 1980s. Series author Akira Toriyama called them "the worst kind of people".
X00Xr TIL Darius McCollum, a New Yorker diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, has been arrested over 30 times for impersonating transit employees, stealing trains and buses, and driving their routes - complete with making safety announcements and passenger stops.
V4dQ TIL a 2001 study found up to 70% of female high school students in Tokyo had been groped while riding the train