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TIL of Brian Shaffer, a man who disappeared after entering a bar in Columbus, OH in April, 2006. He was recorded on security cameras entering the bar, but never leaving the bar. He is still missing today.

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8Wja TIL: Einstein explained Relativity as “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”
grLbW TIL that the human body glows in visible light, but the glow is 1,000 times weaker than the human eye can detect. Scientists captured this faint bioluminescence using ultra-sensitive cameras and found that the glow fluctuates throughout the day, peaking in the late afternoon and lowest at night.
4kyP6 TIL that due to an agreement between the National Archives and Caroline Kennedy, the jacket Jackie Kennedy wore on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated cannot be displayed in public until 2103
j64mv TIL about Morris Kirksey who won two gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics for the USA in the 4x100-meter relay team and rugby. He joined a small band of athletes to win gold in two different sports. (he also won the silver in the 100 meters)
JP94 TIL Jeanne de Clisson, a Frenchwoman whose husband was beheaded for treason, swore revenge and sold her family lands to buy 3 warships. For the next 13 years she went on a pirating binge, targeting King Philip VI’s ships, & personally beheading French noblemen she captured with an axe.