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TIL Amber Rene Hagerman’s murder remains unsolved, the AMBER alert system in the US is named in her honor

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69GnZ TIL that "no bueno" is not real Spanish but rather a calque: "a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation"
5VLbn TIL the last mail stage robbery in the Old West occurred near Jarbidge, Nevada, in 1916. During this incident, mail carrier Fred Searcy was killed, and $4,000 was stolen—a sum that was never recovered. Ben Kuhl was caught and was the first person convicted of murder based on palm print evidence.
grOEy TIL The Hale telescope features a 200 inch (5.08m) diameter mirror. The mirror took 10 months anneal and was delivered to Caltech in 1936. The telescope was completed in 1948 as it took years of grinding and polishing to make the mirror accurate to 2/1,000,000ths of an inch of a perfect paraboloid.
8aGMK TIL that recent discoveries in man-made caves at the Red Sea have proven that ancient Egypt's was a maritime power, trading with a place called Punt (that still remains a mystery where it was).
GnVg TIL Tiger Woods stuttered as a child and used to talk to his dog until he fell asleep in an effort to get rid of it.