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TIL Alfred Hitchcock wrote a story for Look magazine in 1943 called “The Murder of Monty Woolley”. It was a sequence of captioned photographs inviting the reader to inspect the photos for clues to the murderer’s identity.

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nepL9 TIL of Mauro Prosperi who survived for 9 days alone in the Saharan Desert on a diet of urine and bats after becoming disoriented and travelling nearly 200 miles in the wrong direction during an endurance event. He was found in Algeria despite the race taking part in Morocco
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