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LkArP TIL that in 1995, Theo Müller - head of yoghurt company Müller - was kidnapped and held at gunpoint. Müller threw himself out of the car and promptly returned to work that afternoon.
e0lk TIL Google search results can be limited to a specific reading level. Really useful for finding grade school materials or scientific journals.
nWWYP TIL the character "Daddy" Warbucks, from the comic strip 'Annie', was briefly killed off by the writer Gray on the grounds that it was widely thought that capitalists were obsolete. Warbucks was resurrected, however, after FDR's death. Warbucks represented cartoonist Harold Gray's free-market views.
67dm TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.
a8xNo TIL stars don't move during space travel as in movies. As Apollo astronauts looked out the window while speeding toward the moon, it looked like they were motionless because the stars didn't move.