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TIL a key piece of evidence in an active murder investigation, a unique pair of eyeglasses, was sent to the show "Unsolved Mysteries" for their segment profiling the case. After Robert Stack handled them with his bare hands, they were lost. An innocent man was imprisoned for two decades.

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JYPLv TIL China has planted over 500 thousand square kilometers of forest since 1978 to combat the expansion of the Gobi Desert making it the largest forest plantation in the world. It’s expected to reach 4,500 km by 2050
JY8Z1 TIL in 2016, an octopus named Inky mysteriously disappeared from New Zealand's National Aquarium. A wet trail later revealed he escaped his tank through a small hole, slid across the floor at night and squeezed his body through a pipe leading to the ocean.
gm17 TIL Bob Dylan was arrested for walking around a neighborhood outside of New Jersey in the pouring rain. Residents called reporting a strange man lurking around. The 24 yr old cop had no idea who he was even after he told her his name.
ADDgx TIL Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with "two gunshot wounds to the head." His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide.
Oo86R TIL that dogs will lick for a variety of reasons, which depend on the situation at hand: including, as expert, Dr. Calore, points out, when it licks the vet: it is not showing affection, but it is trying to communicate with them, asking them not to hurt her!