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TIL in 2008, a woman who had been missing for 24 years was discovered to be locked up against her will in her father's basement for all those years. In a prison interview, the father said: "Just look into the cellars of other people, you might find other families and other girls down there."

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xVQ40 TIL: In the last 100 years, more people have been killed by a dog in each single year than the total killed by sharks for all 100 years combined.
94v6 TIL the British Government forcibly deported a whole population out of an island to make way for a US military base
e0PxD TIL Male Argonaut octopi will throw their penises at females to inseminate themselves with to avoid being eaten by the females after sex.
PNMn TIL - It is banned to use weather modification in warfare. The ban came after its use by the U.S. in the Vietnam War
mGrR TIL the amount of matter converted to energy in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about 700 milligrams, less than one-third the mass of a U.S. dime.