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TIL of Craig Williamson, a Florida man who was watching "Unsolved Mysteries" and recognized himself as the missing person in Colorado. He claimed he was beaten in a robbery and developed amnesia. He was later reunited with his wife whom he had no memory of. Police are skeptical of the story.

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MeGpW TIL Brazilians primarily spoke their native Tupi language up to the mid 18th century because Jesuit missionaries encouraged the natives to keep their mother tongue and enforced Europeans to learn it. However, in 1759 the Jesuits were expelled by the Prime Minister and Tupi quickly went extinct.
rR7Ke TIL Piper Perri the pornstar known for that five black guys meme ;left her 2 year-old son with her drug addict boyfriend to attend a shoot. Shortly after her leaving, the child was hospitalized and pronounced brain dead with symptoms of shaken baby syndrome. The child was declared dead days after.
MZjb TIL That there is a village in Austria named Fucking where the road signs were frequently stolen by English-speaking tourists. The mayor said that tourists, and the money they bring to the area, were welcome, but locals were sick of replacing the Fucking signs.
yVyKv TIL that England expelled all Jews via decree in 1290 and just recently apologized.
YpWGP TIL President Jimmy Carter was in Mexico City on Valentines Day, 1979. At the opening ceremonies in Mexico City, Carter remarked that he could not "imagine a more appropriate day" for Mexico and the United States to meet "and to express the feelings that the people of my country have towards yours"