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TIL that a tour group thought a woman was missing from their group because she changed her clothes. She even helped in her own missing person search before she realized that the group was looking for her.

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yQ4aJ TIL after Marcelo Bielsa became manager of Leeds United FC, he found out that the average fan had to work 3 hours to pay for a match ticket. He called his players together and made them pick up litter from around the training ground for 3 hours, to appreciate how the fans laboured for their passion
0wkRj TIL that before being sentenced to prison, rapper Meek Mill's judge allegedly requested he abandon his record label to sign with her friend, and that he cover a Boys II Men song mentioning her name. At the same trial, the court clerk passed Mill a note asking him to help pay her son's tuition.
GYVjJ TIL that on the show Breaking Bad, the color wheel has an enormous impact on the outfits that each character wears. Essentially, the color yellow represents the drug trade on the color wheel. The closer a character is to the meth trade, the closer the color they wear is to yellow.
xVZZw TIL: An artist active in Grenada mounted dozens of realistic statues underwater to provide "habitat for filter-feeding organisms." The submerged sculpture garden Jason de Caires Taylor built gets visits from divers and tourists in clear-bottomed boats as well as tropical fish.
xrww TIL In 1955 Hugh Hefner released a short story about straight men being persecuted in a gay world. After receiving numerous hatemail, he released a statement saying “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”