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TIL a 7-year-old girl recognized herself on a milk carton as a missing kid. She might never have been rescued, except her abductor bought the carton and cut out the image, giving it to her to save. A friend saw it and she was reunited with her father.

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JYP4m TIL that farmed salmon can get depression, a state which causes them to stop eating and radically changes their physical attributes
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xVkMk TIL in 1975, Indian intelligence agency warned the Bangladeshi president about a possible coup. He ignored their advice by saying "These are my own children and they will not harm me. Seven months later he was assassinated by some military officers, plotted by his closest political associates.