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TIL the U.S. National Park Service provides a record of Lost People on their site

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rNmwx TIL that Sir Christopher Lee has made multiple heavy metal cover songs of classic Christmas carols
Yyjv TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk, and despite there being 100 staff on the same floor in the department no-one realised he was dead for 2 days.
rROnd TIL a slave from Mozambique called Yasuke was the first black samurai in the history of Japan
nWyjY TIL The JFK Memorial Plaza monument in Dallas was designed to look like an empty tomb. It has no statue, and there is nothing to read or really explore
kQrE TIL that in the late 1950s, China’s government began a campaign to kill millions of sparrows because they ate crops. As a result, there was a huge increase in crop-eating insects, which led to a severe famine.