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TIL an online gamer solved a missing child case in the USA remotely from his bedroom in England

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MgDA TIL That ‘Blood Feuds’ are still active in Albania. If someone kills someone, the family then kills someone from their family and it goes back and forth. The only safe haven is your home. Some feuds are decades old, and some children hardly leave their home to stay safe.
l7xeV TIL about Australian Rules Football, a rugby-esque contact sport involving an oval ball. It's played by two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground.
WNk4 TIL that the term ‘gargoyle’ only refers to carved stone figures in Gothic architecture that function as water spouts. Any other figure is considered a 'grotesque’.
LQgld TIL The biological father of Martin Gore, founding member of Depeche Mode and its musical driving force, and key figure in the New Wave, Synth Pop, and Alternative Dance music genres, is African American. Gore himself only learned when he turned 30 and has since visited him in the American south.
0dmBA TIL that the Blériot XI is the world's oldest flyable plane having first been built in 1909.