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TIL that in 2001, Ashton Kutcher thought he was stood up by his date but she was actually murdered. He even saw the pool of blood but ‘thought it was red wine.’

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grvN8 TIL that when the Salton Sea was formed, it nearly destroyed the cities of Mexicala (now Mexicali) and Calexico by creating a waterfall that moved through them.
5VYlQ TIL that Baiji is a species of freshwater dolphin. It is the first dolphin species driven to extinction due to the impact of humans. This dolphin has not been seen in almost 20 years.
VeO8 TIL that Napoleon’s great-great-great Grand Nephew still claims the throne and works as an investment banker in New York
XQMk TIL in 1941 Harry Truman said “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.”
DQVgg TIL one night in 2021 Ruth Hamilton had been asleep for hours in her home when she awoke to the sound of her dog barking which gave her a moment's notice before a meteorite roughly the size of a melon crashed through her ceiling & came to rest on her pillow, inches from where her head had just been.