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TIL - The original Star Trek:TNG model was presumed missing, but it turns out it was hanging above a grill at a restaurant.

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J1PnV TIL about Basil Zaharoff a 19th and early 20th century arms dealer, who is believed to have inspired the James Bond villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Me7Ka TIL during the Great Depression people often made clothes out of feed sacks. Seeing this, distributors started to print their feed sacks with different colours and patterns to help people remain at least somewhat fashionable.
Z8bPB TIL That the painting "The Concert" by Johannes Vermee, stolen in 1990 during the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft, is still considered by many experts to be the most expensive object ever stolen. It was valued at 250 million dollars in 2015.
W4Q9 TIL David Kelly, a weapons expert, was found dead in July 2003, a month after claiming that what appeared to be Iraq’s mobile weapons laboratories, were facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill balloons. He was questioned by the parliamentary committee two days prior to his death.
RBA6 TIL that “bride burning” accounts for one death per hour of Indian women, and is considered as rampant as it was 2500 years ago.