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TIL that an overwhelming majority, 91%, of reported missing children cases are endangered runaways

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N7y6 TIL there is a plot of land between Egypt and Sudan claimed by no country.
p8nQG TIL that German Snipers in WWI had excellent observational training and killed hundreds of enemy officers. They could identify British officers at hundreds of yards simply by the cut of their breeches.
yQ8RM TIL the shot in Jurassic Park where the cup of water vibrates, heralding the arrival of the T-Rex, was actually an extremely difficult shot to get right. They eventually got it by feeding a guitar string through the car, down to the ground and someone plucked a specific chord to get the effect.
kJvjB TIL: In 17th century Holland, several Dutch cities banned gingerbread figures due to their use as effigys.
e0PG5 TIL Transatlantic aviators refer to the longitude of 30W as the Molson-Guinness Line because that is where aircraft move from the Irish to the Canadian air traffic system and vice versa, Molson being a Canadian beer and Guinness being an Irish one. It is even marked on charts.