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TIL in 1926 Agatha Christie went missing for 10 days prompting a massive manhunt. She was hiding in a hotel dealing with her husband divorcing her.

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16B6V TIL the movie Grease (1978) was created as a parody for the very thing it’s typically celebrated for - Corny 1950’s teen musicals.
ky57 TIL Tuberculosis was so romanticized during the Victorian era that fashion trends emerged to highlight and emulate the symptoms of the disease. This fashion movement is referred to as “Consumptive Chic”.
W6Od TIL 1 ton of discarded cell phones will yield more gold than 1 ton of gold ore.
eo4k TIL that the last Nazi soldiers to surrender in World War II did so on September 4, 1945 - two days after the official Japanese surrender.
rX1 TIL there was a Finnish sniper called “The White Death” in WWII who has the largest confirmed kill count in history.