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TIL two men went missing in Naples, FL after being arrested by the same officer for driving without a license, one year apart.

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D0gv TIL when Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the all-black 54th Regiment during the American Civil War, died at Fort Wagner, he was stripped and buried with his men as an insult. His father, however, proclaimed that he was proud to know that his son rests with his brave and devoted soldiers.
VVrZ TIL that in 1998 a woman called Amy Bradley vanished from a cruise ship. Years later, photos emerged that suggested she may have been kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. Amy Bradley has never been found.
rRaEM TIL Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip from YouTube, Used it in Family Guy and filed a copyright claim for the Original to be taken down
LQAK0 TIL that the Quileute werewolf group in 'Twilight ' are a real tribe that live near the filming, Forks, Washington. However, the Quileute tribal members expressed dislike towards to the way that their culture was being represented, as they did not have any myths concerning werewolves.
aw0xA TIL Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived 2 atomic bomb blasts. He was in Hiroshima on a business trip when the first bomb was dropped. He then returned to his home in Nagasaki. As he was explaining to his boss what happened, the second bomb was dropped. He was within 2 miles of ground zero both times.