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TIL of Jaycee Dugard, an 11-year old girl who was kidnapped in 1991 only to be found when her kidnapper walked into a school in 2009 with two young girls claiming they were his daughters. They were in fact his daughters, their mother being Jaycee; a prisoner for 18 years and a mother at 14.

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5WBp TIL that preventing an abort of the Apollo 11 mission has been attributed to the work of Margaret Hamilton, the lead flight software designer for Project Apollo. She was 31 when the lunar module landed on the moon, running her code, and is credited for coining the term “software engineering.”
GANPN TIL about the Gävle goat, a Swedish Christmas display of a giant wooden goat which, despite this never being part of the tradition and being very illegal, has been burned down by arson almost every year since 1966
Wka5X TIL bathroom's graffiti is called 'Latrinalia' which some places have actually attempted to curb such method by setting up in the lavatory big blackboards as well as offering free chalk.
LJpP TIL a man cracked the knuckles on only one of his hands for sixty years to prove that knuckle cracking doesn’t cause arthritis, earning him the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize
YNBZ TIL Astronomers have discovered 18 giant blue stars being ejected out of our galaxy and scientists are unsure how the stars are being propelled.