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

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ngJP TIL America’s first multi-millionaire, John Jacob Astor, was an opium dealer.
e0ap4 TIL about the Kogi tribe, an indigenous people who choose their priests at birth and raise them in a dark cave for a decade to connect them to the earth.
neRGo TIL that French President Charles De Gaulle survived an assassination attempt due to the bullet being stopped by the frame of the photograph of his daughter Anne that he always carried with him. Anne had downs syndrome and died 14 years earlier at the age of 20
6vam TIL in the 1950 FIFA World Cup final in Brazil (with the hosts up against Uruguay) a speech congratulating Brazil on the win was prepared, 22 gold medals with the Brazilian players names imprinted on them were made and a song on Brazil’s victory was written prior to the finals. Uruguay won 2-1
mxvAv TIL mob informant Henry Hill - subject of the movie "Goodfellas" - on the first day of his new identity in Witness Protection, took his family to dinner at a Godfather's Pizza franchise as a joke.