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TIL of Bum Farto, a fire chief and convicted drug dealer from Florida. He disappeared in February 1976 and has not been seen since. He was declared legally dead in 1986 so his wife could collect pension and insurance policies.

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Z8bPB TIL That the painting "The Concert" by Johannes Vermee, stolen in 1990 during the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft, is still considered by many experts to be the most expensive object ever stolen. It was valued at 250 million dollars in 2015.
69be8 TIL Many brands of nacho cheese owe their perpetual meltiness to something called sodium citrate. When you add sodium citrate to cheese, it melts more easily and stays melted without getting oily or clumpy. The chemical formula for sodium citrate is actually Na₃C₆H₅O₇)
P90G TIL that G-rated family films earn more money than any other rated films; however, only 4% of Hollywood’s output is G-rated.
woN97 TIL the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) company's main competitor was Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad which controlled the only rail access into Manhattan. In 1899 Alexander Cassatt came out of a 17 year retirement to head PRR and visited Paris where he was saw the first electric terminal.
R7E6l TIL During the "cash for clunkers" program of 2009, the government provided CARFAX vehicle identification numbers (VIN) of the 700,000 clunkers that consumers turned in at dealerships. By law, these cars must have their engines taken out and destroyed, and the rest of the metal scrapped.