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TIL That a woman joined a missing person's search party, only to discover that she was in fact searching for herself

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JYjk8 TIL that during WWI, officials didn't trust units of the D.C. National Guard to secure infrastructure around the capital because so many of their men had foreign ties.The job was given to the only unit they felt they could trust as 100% American: the all-black 1st Separate Infantry.
4mlR TIL: The largest lottery win ever was $ 941.8 million.
8yNG TIL that a reckless neurosurgeon in Texas killed and paralyzed several patients over 18 months in spite of many formal complaints of his malpractice by fellow neurosurgeons.
16VPr TIL Amateur Canadian Scientists discovered a new type of Aurora in 2018 and named it Steve
1ajKD TIL that there is a deadly stream in England that accelerates water from a 30-foot-wide river through a small gap called the Bolton Strid. Rumor has it that no one who fell in has ever gotten out alive.