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TIL an Australian journalist was kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents, but was released 24 hours later after the Iraqi insurgents used Google to verify that he’s journalist.

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XWNr TIL that a severe hurricane hit Houston, USA during World War II but was kept largely a secret to the public by government authorities to prevent Axis knowledge of lost industrial capacities in the area
QNJBp TIL that the San Francisco restaurant Casa Sanchez closed in 2012, but people who got free tacos for life because they got tattooed with their logo can get free pupusas from the restaurant that took over their lease
XnOR TIL that Big Boi from OutKast, as a child, would throw candy parties where he’d charge kids to come to his house and eat candy all day. He would DJ it.
kOrvW TIL Not many babies are born during the graduate-student years. More than two-thirds of women in a doctoral survey agreed that the ages between 28 and 34 would be the optimal time to have a first child—the very years in which they are struggling to obtain a Ph.D
YmGr TIL that Harlan Ellison was once hired to write for Disney. Roy O. Disney overheard him in the lunchroom impersonating Donald, Goofy and Mickey, joking about making an animated porno with Disney characters. After lunch he found a pink slip on his desk. He had been fired on his very first day.