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TIL The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has a free Lost Policy Service. It can assist in locating life insurance policies and annuity contracts of a deceased family member or close relationship

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Y7JKv TIL the name of the mineral 'Xenotime' (originally 'kenotime' - meaning "vainglory" in greek) is making fun of a chemist who prematurely claimed to have found a new chemical element in the mineral
yVKPa TIL the Wright Brothers were perpetual bachelors, and that Orville Wright disowned their sister Katherine after she married and had a family of her own, feeling he had been "betrayed".
noy9 TIL that Hitler gave his soldiers sex dolls to prevent the spread of syphilis from prostitutes
npwo TIL that the lightsaber Samuel L Jackson used in the Star Wars movies had the words “bad motherfucker” engraved into it.
mxgM TIL that BBC staff openly smoked marijuana at the corporation’s headquarters during the 1960s and 70s and Play School presenters even went on-air stoned.