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TIL two men disappeared in the space of three months, they were both stopped by the same officer and he left them at a Circle K. Neither man has ever been found.

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6EQG7 TIL of Britain's ghost trains - rare train services in the UK which only see a couple of passengers every day. They're only there because closing lines and stations is difficult and costly, and rail companies would rather run infrequent services than go through the cumbersome process.
R75A7 TIL The US Army Counterintelligence Office does not accept applicants with a history of employment in the Peace Corp, in order to foster trust between communities and the peace corp
Od5L TIL Hitler was the first person to play Hitler in a film. It is considered one of the most innovative propaganda films ever created.
KOoWa TIL one of the first people to use the term "American Exceptionalism" was Stalin in 1929 when he argued that USA was not at all exceptional, and that it will eventually fall to revolution like any other nation.
d1yQ TIL that the refrain “when one door closes, another opens" is actually an Alexander Graham Bell quote which he followed by saying “but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”