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TIL that when Louisiana law enforcement refused to act in a timely manner, a kidnapping victim’s family got their guns, tracked down her captor, killed him and ultimately saved her.

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N7WM8 TIL that the marriage of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is the longest presidential marriage in US history. They had already been married for 30 years when Carter was sworn in as president in 1977.
6EZOw TIL that about 110 children are kidnapped by strangers every year in the United States. About 40% of such cases end in the child's death, and another 4% with the child never being recovered. The vast majority of the 50,000+ yearly reported missing children cases are resolved with the child found.
mxv4y TIL that the recorded cases of spontaneous human combustion (SHC) have these things in common: 1) the victims are chronic alcoholics; 2) they are usually elderly females 3) the body has not burned spontaneously, but some lighted substance has come into contact with it.
D09J TIL there’s a colony in Brazil populated by descendants of between 2,000 and 4,000 Confederate refugees who chose to leave the United States after they lost the American Civil War.
ERkW TIL Astronauts, during spacewalks, face the danger of their fingernails detaching from their nailbeds, a condition called “fingernail delamination”