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TIL There’s a guy who fathered 98 children as an act of charity

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8e7AK TIL the longest open missing persons case in the US is that of Marvin Clark, who disappeared on October 30, 1926 while traveling from Tigard to Portland, Oregon. The case is still open today.
6ybW TIL that James Earl Jones declined to have his name appear on the credits of both Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), claiming that he felt his contribution wasn’t significant enough to warrant a credit.
9Y8pG TIL that in 2013, a Texas woman tried to kill a snake by dousing it in gasoline and setting it on fire. The snake's final act of defiance was to slither into the house and set it on fire.
M7Bn8 TIL - All of Germany's federal laws & regulations are tracked in a GitHub repository
egvk TIL: In 2002, Chechen separatists brought down a Russian Mi-26 helicopter, which subsequently crashed into a minefield killing 127 soldiers on board. It was the most deadly aviation disaster ever suffered by the Russian armed forces, as well as their worst loss of life in a single day since 1999.