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TIL that Bizzy Bone from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony was abducted as a child and was found thanks to his photo being recognized during an airing of a movie about Adam Walsh's kidnapping and murder.

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v1rlj TIL that the gravity at the International Space Station is approximately 90% as strong as on Earth. The reason why things and people float is that they are constantly falling down, the same way people in an elevator would float if it was falling too fast.
jdxQ TIL that One World Trade Center makes strange eerie sounds when the wind passes, making New Yorkers believe it to be haunted by the victims of 9/11.
jyQR TIL the small cylindrical bulge at the end of laptop charger is an electrical device that helps to isolate the laptop from electromagnetic noise.
KYwP4 TIL about Theo Van Gogh (Vincent's great grand-nephew) and his assassination in 2004. Shot and stabbed in the street because of a film he made.
v15Q4 TIL some people think in images and some think in words.