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TIL since January 2025 to current a total of 3,274 children have been reported missing to the MCC in Virginia. A weekly average of 98

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9mom TIL Cats have a distinct temperature preference for their food, preferring food at around 38 °C which is similar to that of a fresh kill and routinely rejecting food presented cold (which would signal to the cat that the “prey” is long dead and therefore possibly toxic or decomposing).
P7Yw TIL based on a 1986 statute, that the US government considers communication older than 180-days (i.e., old emails, neglected mailboxes) to have been abandoned by the intended recipient and can sift through those forsaken documents without a warrant or cause for suspicion
JYdVQ TIL People all over the world believe chocolate can help you lose weight because a Journalist Scammed The Media Into Spreading Bad Chocolate Science to prove a point about non peer reviewed science articles.
PyoL TIL that Grant Imahara of Mythbusters volunteered to build Geoff Peterson–the gay robot skeleton sidekick on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson–if Craig got him 100K Twitter followers.
x6lA0 TIL that some metro stations in Bucharest have very narrow platforms, because Elena Ceausescu (the wife of Nicolae Ceausescu) wanted less stations in the metroline saying: "youth and working class is starting to get fat, so they need to walk more", so the workers had built those stations in secret.