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QNPM6 TIL that Austrian actress Eva von Berne was presumed to be dead for 70+ years because a PR consultant at MGM accidentally reported her death in 1930. 96-year-old von Berne said in 2006: "It was fortunate that the world thought that I died. So I did not have to deal with autograph hunters."
p8XmA TIL that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was only created in 1939 and is a licensed character whose commercial rights are owned by The Rudolph Company
wLXk6 TIL Israel merged the front half of a damaged rare 2 seat F-15 with the back half of an obsolete retired single seat F15. When they asked Boeing for advice Boeing never responded thinking the Israeli air force was joking.
Z8GmB TIL that with 168,151 people per square km, the Lalbagh Thana neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh, is most densely populated administrative subdivision in the world (~6.2x denser than Manhattan!)
WGXB TIL The U.S. Department of Education prohibits schools from spending money on D.A.R.E. because studies have proven it to be a completely ineffective program.