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TIL about Luis Albino, a 6 year old boy who was kidnapped in 1951 and found alive by his relatives in 2024

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b6kmE TIL that in Yukon, Canada, there is a "desert" between mountains and forests. Despite the name, scientifically is not a desert in the traditional sense, are dunes created by glaciers 24,000 years ago, but locals nickname the place as "the world smallest desert".
oRjQr TIL,Italian artist Salvatore Garau auctioned off an invisible sculpture called "lo sono" ("I Am") for $18,300 at the Art-Rite auction house.The buyer received only a certificate of authenticity.According to Garau, the art exists as“air and spirit”within a 5x5 foot space,intended to spark imagination
xk6B TIL Jaffa Cakes avoided paying UK value added tax by presenting a giant Jaffa Cake to the court proving they were, in fact, cakes and not biscuits
VMYD8 TIL of two boys from Ireland that in 1985 managed to to sneak on to 2 trains, a ferry and a plane taking them from Dublin Ireland, through Wales and England eventually ending up in New York City
gr1XL TIL locusts are just angry, swarming, grasshoppers that have been agitated enough that they transform