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TIL: everytime a missing child that appeared in the music video of runaway train was found, the photo was replaced with a new photo from another missing child

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5YABr TIL. The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson (1812–1880), Premier of Tasmania.
X9pE TIL in the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.
PjVe TIL British car firm Jaguar changed its name from SS Cars in 1945 for obvious reasons. It’s choice of logo did not help
P10PE TIL roughly 115 million years ago in the time of dinosaurs, a little 5cm mushroom from Gondwana fell in a river, journeyed to a highly saline lagoon, sank down, down, thru the water. Was covered in layer upon layer of fine sediment. Becoming Gondwanagaricites magnificus, the oldest fossil mushroom
x6geb TIL in 1899 the members of Barnam and Baileys Greatest Show on Earth "freak show" rebelled against being labelled as freaks and demanded a more appropriate name. This created major headlines and public debate across Britain where they were performing at the time.