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TIL that Rupert Murdoch's wife was the target of a 1969 kidnap for ransom plot, which went awry because Murdoch was out of the country and had lent his company car to his underling Alick McKay. McKay's wife Muriel was kidnapped instead and murdered.

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lobr TIL the swedish former physical education teacher Richard Juhlin has the best nose for wine (champagne specifically) and in a now infamous blind tasting in 2003, arranged by Spectacle du Monde, he correctly identified 43 of 50 wines. The one who came in second correctly identified four.
xrG0 TIL that a Russian woman in Chernobyl is making YouTube videos while injecting herself with radiation and eating apples from the Exclusion Zone. She also picks up pieces of the radioactive reactor core.
yV5xv TIL that Samurai armour was largely made out of hemp (cannabis)
Mbwm TIL that Sybil Ludington, a 16 year old girl, rode more than twice the distance of Paul Revere in order to warn Americans of an imminent British attack.
xXoo TIL that there are “new” colors such as blue-yellow and red-green that can’t normally be perceived.