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

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78PgL TIL that 69 (number) is the only natural number whose square (4761) and cube (328509) uses every decimal digit from zero to nine exactly once.
EgKeP TIL about a billions of years old meteorite that held a beautiful secret.
W7QNA TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 families on the Mayflower.
VBObG TIL: The Mouse Utopia Experiment was a series of tests designed what would happen to mice if all conditions for survival were met. As populations grew, social pressure became destructive to the colony. Even though all physical needs were met, the colonies collapsed in every experiment.
yo68 TIL The man who wrote what is considered the first significant self help book in 1859, Samuel Smiles, is the great-great-grandfather of Bear Grylls.