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TIL in addition to the more familiar AMBER Alert, Texas has two additional codes: CLEAR Alerts for abducted adults between 18-64 and Camo Alerts for missing active duty military or veterans with mental illness and/or injuries.

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0LxN TIL when Freddie Mercury recorded the album Mr. Bad Guy he planned on collaborating with Michael Jackson but cancelled after one song because he felt uncomfortable recording with Jackson’s pet llama in the studio.
9YOwm TIL: In Iranian Cuisine (Chabahar, Balochi style BBQ), they use pomegranate rub to preserve meat up to 2 years in the sun before consuming it.
6EQeQ Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That's the basic principle behind Einstein's General Relativity, which linked, for the first time, the phenomenon of gravity with that of spacetime and relativity. Place a mass down anywhere in the Universe, and the space around it will curve in response. But if you take that mass away, or move it elsewhere, what causes the spacetime to "snap back" to its unbent position?
V07k TIL a flight Ernest Hemingway was on crash-landed in Africa. He and his companions were rescued and put in another plane, which burst into flames on the runway. Finding the door jammed, Hemingway used his head as a battering ram, butted the door twice and got out.
Vgk0 TIL in 1987 a South Korean man went on a 57 person killing spree lasting over 8 hours after his girlfriend woke him up by swatting a fly on his chest.