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TIL the late Jerry and Rita Alter, a suburban New Mexico couple, allegedly stole Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1985 and kept the $160 million artwork on the wall behind their bedroom door until it was found there after Rita died in 2017.

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ZpABD TIL in 2008, a single basketball shot may have saved hundreds of lives. Alabama player Mykal Riley made a 3-point-shot that pushed the game into overtime minutes before an EF-2 Tornado passed by. If he had missed that shot, hundreds of fans could have been in the parking lot when the tornado hit.
NkvN TIL that to save cost and avoid faulty code in the 60’s, IBM created the ’ IBM Black Team’ which was a group of debuggers who were both respected and feared amongst the other developers.
Oow06 TIL about the "Iron Harvest". This is an annual event where people help unearth unexploded bombs from European conflicts, specifically WW1. Since 1946, over 600 civilians and ordnance collectors have died from these explosives.
oBmgE TIL TIL Despite being fluent in Spanish, Wagner Moura (the actor who played Escobar in 'Narcos') went back to college to take Spanish for foreigners, to perfect his pronunciation as someone who speaks Spanish as a first language.
wodoP TIL. IKEA has a secret code for naming its products. For example, bookcases are named after occupations, sofas are named after places in Sweden, and rugs are named after places in Denmark