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TIL a supermarket employee in Iowa disappeared in 2009 during a shift, and his body was finally found in 2019, having decomposed in a gap between a freezer and the wall

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4XLlX TIL in 1995 Newsweek published an article berating the internet and calling visions about its future "baloney". It predicted that "no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."
7vAx TIL that in 1987, Fisher-Price manufactured and sold a camcorder capable of recording video footage to standard audio cassettes.
v1Kr8 TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk in his office, and no one realized he was dead for 2 days.
Wk6jo TIL the oldest living terrestrial animal, a 186-year old giant tortoise called Jonathan, has been mating with a female giant tortoise called Frederica since 1991...who, it turns out, was actually a male all along.
mxwy TIL that in 1909 the presidential salary was $75,000. Adjusting for inflation, that’s about $1.7 million, or more than four times the current presidential pay of $400,000.