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TIL every year, hundreds of people go missing into the American wilderness without a trace, with Oregon’s national parks amongst the highest disappearances.

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G5RJ TIL Robin Williams’ rider required that for every single event or film he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them to work.
JMjk TIL that during the Vietnam War, medics began using super glue to seal battle wounds in troops headed for surgery. It was apparently so effective at sutchering the wounds, that it has been credited with saving numerous lives.
1aA4r TIL that Stephen Colbert's father and two of his brothers were killed in the plane crash that sparked the FAA's Sterile Cockpit regulation back in 1974.
d87Q TIL when Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain” is played directly into a dead squid’s nervous system it changes colour to the beat.
xjkw TIL:A captive shark, vomited up another, different shark, which had a human arm in it’s belly, and the arm was used to solve a murder.