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TIL most missing children are runaways, and 99% of abducted children are taken by relatives, typically a noncustodial father.In response to these statistics, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has reversed their campaign focusing on "stranger danger"

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8eOQK TIL about the Canada–Philippines waste dispute, which concerned 103 allegedly-mislabeled shipping containers, and over which Philippine President Duterte threatened to declare war in 2019.
OQba TIL van Gogh actually only cut off his own earlobe, not his whole ear.
kOGA7 TIL: First world, second world and third world countries have nothing to do with money, education or development. Following World War II, countries were categorized as First World, Second World, or Third World countries. All based off who they aligned themselves with during the war.
0bPy TIL: WHen Ford was first creating the Model T’s, a lot of the car was made out of wood. With so much wood scrap, Ford discovered a use for all the waste wood: Charcoal briquettes. Eventually, Ford Charcoal was renamed after a relative of his: Kingsford.
W9KY TIL a group of 55 Chimpanzees has more genetic diversity than all 7 billion humans.