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TIL that the hands of former Argentine president Juan Perón were stolen from his tomb in 1987 and are still missing

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09ZA TIL there are documents that state that Pope Pius XII tried to perform an exorcism on Hitler at a distance, but failed.
e0vVE TIL: Nasa had a 400$ fine for littering in the australian outback due to debris from skylab
Z8QnR TIL Studies have concluded that all mammals get about a billion heartbeats per lifetime. They can use them at a rate of 1,000 per minute, like the shrew, or space them out into slow, ponderous beats, over many years, as is the case for the Grey whale.
5YpeR TIL Chris McCandless's "Into the Wild" bus in Alaska was removed from Denali after tourists kept getting severely injured or dying while trying to visit it.
mJ4x TIL that after the xkcd comic “Time” was posted, it spawned a 67000-post, 3300000-views thread whose regulars developed their own Time-based culture, creating their own mannerisms and vocabulary. It got so bad that newcomers to the thread could barely understand the latest posts.