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TIL after Amanda Berry disappeared in 2003, a self-proclaimed psychic, Sylvia Browne, went on television and determined that Berry was dead and was "in water." Amanda Berry was found alive in 2013 after escaping the home of a man who imprisoned her and two other women for over a decade.

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lapV TIL Alfred Hitchcock made the first recorded “Thats what she said” joke in 1929.
p8xZG TIL of Eilmer of Malmesbury. An English monk who, in the 11th century, developed a glider and flew ~200m high. However, a gush of wind crashed him and left him crippled for the rest of his life. He wrote later in life that the reason for the crash was not developing a tail component to the glider.
P1e1g TIL: birds exhibit very jerky movements mainly for depth perception — quickly switching which eye is looking at something enables comparison between viewpoints, much like humans constantly compare views from their two eyes which the brain uses to create a 3D picture.
Xk4P TIL the molestation and rape of children by priests in America has resulted in more than $3.3 billion of settlements over the past 15 years, $1.3 billion of that in California.
E1KNP TIL the skull on the moth covering Jodie Foster’s mouth on the poster for Silence Of The Lambs is actually 7 female bodies as depicted by Salvador Dali and represent the movies victims