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TIL that, due to fires and poor archiving and storage methods, approximately 90% of films from the Silent Era (1890s-1920s) are lost

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yVQkJ TIL In 1968 South Korea hatched a plan to assassinate Kim Il Sung that went terribly wrong: Recruits (petty criminals) snapped during intense training on a remote island, killed their trainers, hijacked and blew up a bus in Seoul, killing 15... In all 37 people killed, 7 missing and 30 wounded.
Mmv8 TIL that six years after Martin Luther King was shot and killed, his mother was also shot and killed, in the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, Auburn, Alabama.
BL1y TIL the town of Austin, Indiana has a higher incidence of HIV than any country in Africa.
1aYm7 TIL: yogurt is reported by the FDA to help ease malabsorption of lactose in other dairy products
KYYPQ TIL about the almost completely unknown story of Félicette, a stray Parisian cat who was the only cat successfully launched into space - only to be euthanased weeks after