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TIL of Marvin Maples, a Tennessee grandfather who kidnapped his grandchildren and moved to San Diego where they assumed false identities for 20 years. Maples claimed his daughter and her husband were a part of a Satanic cult and regularly abused their children.

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P196O TIL there are people in France who have actually done time in jail for stealing garden gnomes in the name of The Garden Gnome Liberation Front
4Qlg TIL that the infamous ending to the movie Se7en only came about because director David Fincher was mailed the wrong version of the script.
EyPX TIL a British man was so fed up with cold-callers he set up his own premium rate number which he asked them to call instead, netting him around £7 a month.
REL8 TIL Nicholas Cage was forced to return a T-Rex Skull that was deemed stolen after paying $276k for it.
nBKB TIL the Exxon Valdez, a ship that caused one of the most infamous oil spills in history is still carrying oil today, albeit with a different name. However,it is banned from carrying oil off of the Alaskan coast, the site of the spill