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TIL that in 1998 a woman called Amy Bradley vanished from a cruise ship. Years later, photos emerged that suggested she may have been kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. Amy Bradley has never been found.

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GK5j TIL that the PC game Gunpoint was made in Game Maker by a guy with very little programming experience. It was so commercially successful that he never needs to work again.
lAnG TIL actor Peter Capaldi, as Doctor Who, made a video for an autistic 9-yr-old boy grieving the death of his grandmother. The boy’s father said that it had a positive effect: the boy smiled for the first time since learning of his grandmother’s death, and gained the courage to go to her funeral.
yJrM TIL when Louis the XIV of France was shown a new map of his country, which had been freshly surveyed by astronomers using more accurate methods, he saw that France had shrunk by 20 percent. He is said to have exclaimed, “I have just lost more territory to my astronomers than to all my enemies!”
X0r8r TIL that in September 1752 in Britain and the British Empire, 11 days were wiped off the calendar. The 3rd of September became the 14th, sparking street demonstrations with chants "give us our 11 days". This was due to switching to the Gregorian calendar with the leap year.
xD75 TIL: Plants produce capsaicin to discourage rodents from eating the fruit (and grinding the seeds in the process) but birds can’t detect the chemical and don’t destroy the seeds