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TIL that in 2021 the FBI released documents on the Kurt Cobain suicide case. In them, several people have presented evidence that Cobain may have been murdered. The FBI hasn't reopened the case because its "outside their jurisdiction".

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JYN81 TIL that Billy Joel released a cover of “Make you feel my love” a month before Bob Dylan released the original.
wdwP TIL There are over 250 million years of geological data missing from rock layers. This is called the Great Unconformity.
0XDv TIL That China tried to build a city that was a replica of Paris, right down to the replica Eiffel Tower, but it’s now a ghost town
nemMG TIL Harper Lee and Truman Capote were childhood friends who wrote together after school. To Kill a Mockingbird’s character Dill is based on Capote. Lee was an “assistant researchist” for Capote to help write his book In Cold Blood. Both of them spent two months conducting interviews for the book.
d8a4K TIL, that airplane windows are round because where there’s a corner, there’s a weak spot. Windows, having four corners, have four potential weak spots, making them likely to crash under stress – such as air pressure.