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TIL, 14 year old math Olympiad perfect scorer has been missing for 21 years, leaving a single note behind.

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pPeZ TIL apparently you can use blood on a urine pregnancy test and get accurate results
Wk5WY TIL Blazing Saddles had a television spin off that ran for four seasons, of which only one episode was ever aired. The series was made to get around a contract with Mel Brooks that required a TV show before they could make a sequel film, WB simply made an series without telling Brooks.
LQLwV TIL that plants can be albino, too. They have no chloroplasts and produce no chlorophyll of their own, so they either die early, or adapt to become parasites of the plants closest to them, and steal nutrients from them. Like vampire plants. Crazy!
7rkLx TIL that the mirror 'self awareness' test was conducted on ants, and the results showed that they may actually be self aware. A blue dot was painted on individuals in a place they could not normally see, and they did not attempt to clean it off until they were in front of a mirror.
69GN8 TIL the only Olympic Medalist to become disabled and then win a Paralympic Medal is Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres. After winning a bronze in 1988, he lost the use of his legs in a traffic accident and won gold in wheelchair fencing in 1992.