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TIL about the unsolved killing of Ken McElroy of Skidmore, Missouri. He was indicted 21 times and escaped conviction each time, except the last. He was later killed in broad daylight by at least two different firearms. Although this was witnessed by a few dozen people, no one has been convicted.

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d8O7E TIL after Larry Bird left Indiana University, he worked collecting trash in his home town. When leaving for college a 2nd time, this time at Indiana State, he told his co-workers, "I'll be going up there to get a little education. Then I'll be back and be boss of you guys."
P19Ae TIL house sparrows that can't find a mate may serve as "helpers" to mated pairs in the hope of being chosen to replace a lost mate
yEkJ TIL there is a town in Japan called Shingō where the “last resting place of Jesus Christ” is located. Jesus’ “descendants,” the Sawaguchi family, claimed that Jesus’ brother, Isukiri, took his place on the cross while Jesus fled to Japan, became a rice farmer, started a family, and died at 106.
479o TIL that White Coke was a colorless, unlabeled variant of Coca-Cola developed to look like vodka for Soviet Marshall Zhukov, who was introduced to Coke by Dwight Eisenhower during WWII but did not want to be seen drinking a symbol of American imperialism during the Cold War
p8jme TIL there has NEVER been a perfect game in an officially sanctioned game of the New England/Canadian Maritime candlepin version of bowling - the highest such score has been 245, attained twice