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TIL astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element. It is estimated there is no more than one gram in the Earth’s crust at any given time.

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Brmnr TIL in 1987 Iraq attacked the United States ship USS Stark and killed 37 sailors
X0krQ TIL that in 2005, identity thief Behzad Mofrad plead guilty on charges related to applying for a passport under the name "Kevin Andrew Collins." Kevin was one of the first missing children whose images were ever disseminated nationally on milk cartons. Mofrad assumed his case had been forgotten.
E1Box TIL that during a flight to America the 'Hindenburg' hovered over a random English town and dropped a bouquet of flowers, then ascended and continued its journey. A note attached to the bouquet read: please deposit these flowers and cross on the grave of my dear brother, POW [in the local cemetery]"
x65QD TIL the last Tsar of Bulgaria, Simeon II, who was forced to abdicate in 1946 also became Prime Minister in 2001
n9Bd TIL If Japan’s 2022 FIFA World Cup bid had been accepted they would of developed technologies including holograms of the matches to be shown around the world in different stadiums, “translation earpieces” allowing foreigners to communicate and more…