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TIL the oldest currently active missing persons case in the United States is almost a century old: the October 1926 disappearance of Marvin Clark from Portland, Oregon.

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R7X6a TIL that birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction, because they were small enough to burrow, had beaks and were smarter than other small beaked dinosaurs.
oxr7 TIL the ratio in length between the middle:pointer finger can be used to determine how much testosterone you were exposed to in the womb
4ooo TIL In the Bible, The New Testament mentions that from Heaven will descend an enormous city named New Jerusalem made of “pure gold, like clear glass” and gives its specific dimensions, 1.9 million square miles. If rested on the Earth, its ceiling would be inside the exosphere.
Z8rP4 TIL that chocolate was classified as “candy” under the Revenue Acts of 1918 and 1921, and so it was taxed as such. Hershey’s sued to recover about $8,000,000 in taxes by arguing it was “food”, and so had been wrongly taxed. The Supreme Court ruled it was “candy”.
GP9E TIL that the individual loops in Froot Loops are actually all the same flavor.