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TIL of Monica Bonilla, a girl who was kidnapped by her father in 1982. 8 years later, Unresolved Mysteries aired a segment on her and a viewer gave a tip that a girl they knew resembled her. They were mistaken. By chance, the tip still led police to Monica, and they rescued her from her father.

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EgvKo TIL the UK tried to ban raves in 1994, with an act criminalizing gatherings where '"music" includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.'
jNV4R TIL that the Pantheon in Rome was built in 126 AD and was the Largest dome in the world for more than 1,755 years until 1881 and is still the largest un-reinforced solid concrete dome in the world today.
OGvLL TIL the earliest known sewing needle, dating back about 50,000 years, was uncovered in a cave in Siberia and might have been the work of Denisovans rather than modern humans.
4kbEg TIL that China "overtook" Europe in terms of GDP. In 1960 China had 59B, Europe 900B. In 1995 China had 699B, Europe 6T. As today China has around 19T and Europe 18T (All these datas are approximated). In the end, one country became "richer" than 20+ countries together in less than 70 years
PYOMV TIL that in 1945, a US Army Air Force B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building. The crash severed an elevator's cables, causing it to plummet 75 stories. The elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver survived the elevator fall, and holds the record for the longest elevator fall survived.