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TIL a woman disappeared while working on a Disney cruise ship. It was believed she was assaulted & then thrown overboard. Disney seemingly covered it up, destroying evidence & lying to her family about what happened.

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1aA9D TIL that William Moore, a co-author of The Roswell Incident (the book that inspired the idea that the Roswell crash was an alien spacecraft), admitted in 1989 he lied to the UFO community for years in accordance with the US Airforce to deceive civilians
607W TIL that the original take of the famous WW2 photo “Raising a Flag over the Reichstag” had to be edited before it was published because the Soviet soldier could be seen wearing multiple watches which had been stolen from German citizens
5YrkD TIL that ancient Roman apartments, called insulae, could reach up to 9 stories, could have running water (fed by nearby aqueducts) and were often owned by the rich and rented out to the poorer roman citizens (from somewhat rich equestrians to pretty poor workers).
egJb TIL the co-founder of Southwest Airlines arm wrestled another CEO for rights to the slogan “Just Plane Smart”
Br09K TIL that a second is technically defined to be "9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom”.