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TIL Michael Jackson has “hundreds” of unreleased songs that were discovered in his vault after he died

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VV4 TIL of Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner who was involved in a fatal plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. It took 2 years for her to regain the ability to walk again, but in 1936 she rejoined the US Olympic relay team and took home the gold medal.
7vXx TIL an anonymous donor sent two Bronze Age axes and two pieces of rare Viking jewelry to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. The museum believes the items were illegally excavated.
LkeOV TIL that Breaking Bad has a shot-for-shot Spanish remake titled "Metástasis" featuring Walter Blanco, a struggling high school chemistry teacher in Bogotá, Colombia, who teams up with his previous student José to cook methamphetamine.
vgn4 TIL the music in the compulsory anti-piracy ad on DVDs was illegally used
oRPRW TIL since Canada’s founding in 1867, fewer than 50 people have been killed in earthquakes on the land now contained within the country’s borders