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TIL that the "Lady of the Dunes" Cold Case was solved in 2023; her killer, new husband Guy Muldavin, died in 2002.

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6mvl TIL that besides 9/11, the only other attack by an outside force on Washington D.C. was in 1814 when George Cockburn, an admiral in the British Royal Navy, literally walked into the White House, ate James Madison’s dinner, drank his wine, and then set fire to the place.
KOyKw TIL One of the reasons why parachutes are not provided to passengers in a commercial airplane is that an airplane usually flies so high that people jumping out of the airplane would pass out due to lack of breathable oxygen so high up there.
N0pN TIL In Bulgarian legends, it is said that if you walk beneath a rainbow, you will change genders
1lxV TIL ExxonMobile, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips are descendant companies of John D. Rockefeller’s oil empire Standard Oil. Rockefeller was worth $237 billion.
XEDer TIL President Garfield’s cause of death wasn’t so much the bullet wound from his assassination attempt as much as it was the treatment he received afterward. His doctors’ clumsy, unsanitary attempts to heal him resulted in a severe, painful infection that killed him three months later.