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TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case remained unsolved until she knocked on someone's door in 2006 saying: "I am Natascha Kampusch." She had just escaped the secret cellar of a local technician that abused her for 8 years.

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M16a TIL that there is a flower that literally looks like a set of hooker’s lips and it’s actually called “Hooker’s Lips”
Qa5e TIL passenger pigeons were once the most abundant bird in the world. John James Audubon once saw a flock that took three days to pass. Alexander Wilson reckoned that a flock he saw contained 2,230,272,000 individuals. The bird was hunted to it’s extinction, which came on September 1, 1914.
xVJR7 TIL Le Pétomane was a French professional farter. His act involved sound effects of cannon fire and thunderstorms, as well as playing "'O Sole Mio" and "La Marseillaise" on an ocarina through his anus. He could also blow out a candle yards away. His audience included royalty and Sigmund Freud.
LRam TIL In 2011 NASA discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water in space to date; clocking in at 12 billion lightyears from Earth and holding the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the Earths oceans.
yQGPM TIL Christopher Robin began hating his bear and was upset by neglect from his father. AA Milne was preoccupied by a "dream son". "He had got where he was by climbing on my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son".