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TIL that when Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926, the police asked Arthur Conan Doyle to help find her.

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b6n9N TIL that Maine has a yearly Moose Lottery to determine who can hunt Moose that season
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nWWEW TIL about the Biological Resource Center in Arizona, that was raided by the FBI in 2014, where agents discovered bodies (which had been donated to "science") "cut up with chainsaws," "a woman's head sewn on a man's torso," and more, being sold for profit. The owner got probation. Agents got therapy.
kO17 TIL Heineken bottles used to be shaped like bricks so you could build houses out of them.
WO7N TIL that with the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656, Christiaan Huygens increased the best accuracy of clocks from 15 minutes deviation a day to around 15 seconds a day.