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TIL that Hernado Williams kidnapped Linda Goldstone while she was on her way to teach a class about natural birth deliveries. He kept her locked in his car at the parking lot of a courtroom while he was attending a hearing for a previous kidnapping charge

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lJer TIL that in 1933 a German scientist named a species of blind cave beetle after the new chancellor Adolf Hitler.
kOyJE TIL that due to the fact that they spend the majority of their lives on sea ice, polar bears are classified as marine mammals, like dolphins, seals, and whales.
doDd TIL in 1939, Major League pitcher, Bob Feller, tested the speed of his pitches by throwing them against a racing motorcycle before radar guns were invented.
W7gWd TIL of the Jevons paradox, which states that increasing efficiency in resource usage causes higher demand - sometimes increasing usage instead of reducing it.
O8e7 TIL the Turkish general who enacted the 1997 coup, which freed Turkey from its last Islamist government, was arrested for that “crime” in 2012 by Erdogans government.