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TIL in 2012, a tour group visiting Iceland announced that they had lost track of a group member. A woman decided to help with the intense police search to find the fellow traveler. The search lasted for several hours, before the woman realized that the person everyone was searching for was herself.

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4XD9o TIL that until 1970 Memorial Day was observed on May 30, regardless of day of the week. Since 1971 the holiday has been anchored to the last Monday in May.
xBYk TIL in response to the Parents Television Council voting various episodes of Family Guy as the “Worst TV Show of the Week”, creator Seth MacFarlane responded by saying “They can all suck my dick as far as I’m concerned.”
DQN6D TIL William Jennings Bryan endorsed Senator Francis Cockrell of Missouri for the 1904 Democratic nomination in expectation of Cockrell losing so badly to Theodore Roosevelt that the Democratic Party would re-nominate him (Bryan) in 1908.
dDXMK TIL: Prairie dogs build their burrows with a flat orifice at one end and a mounded one at the other. During a breeze, the different surface geometries create a pressure differential via the Bernoulli effect, forcing air to flow from the flat end to the mounded end, ventilating the burrow.
K05a TIL that Cartman’s mom, Liane, is named after Trey Parker’s cheating ex-fiancee, thus the jokes about her promiscuity.