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TIL there is an endangered crafts list in the UK called "the red list "

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aGkJ TIL that over 1000 priceless books disappeared from a mountaintop abbey to the confusion of the monks and the local police, and despite reinforcing the library’s doors and changing its locks. Turned out the culprit was using a long-forgotten secret passageway found in the public archives.
QNkNp TIL William Hopper, who played Paul Drake on Perry Mason, won a Bronze Star in WWII.
wLN81 TIL Nintendo was found guilty of running a price fixing cartel in Europe for most of the 1990's
N7kab TIL that during the Cold War, Soviet military cartographers carried out one of the greatest mapping ventures of all time by producing thousands of detailed maps of terrain and local landmarks of almost the entire world
XEBKr TIL: When Schapelle Corby was returning home to Australia from Indonesia after serving almost a decade for drug trafficking, about 40 journalists booked a flight, expecting Corby to be on it. But she took another airline, instead.