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TIL when tea leaves are exposed to various light wavelengths, drastic shifts in taste and aroma occurs

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6XLZ TIL A 20 year-old woman was kept as a (sex-)slave in a box for 23 hours a day between 1977 and 1984; at one point she was permitted to even visit her family, yet still returned to her captors.
jNRXj TIL about Nannie Doss, an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of eleven people between the 1920s and 1954. Also referred to as the "Giggling Granny". It was revealed that she had killed four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson, and a mother-in-law.
PYl0n TIL of the concept of Yūgen (幽玄) an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics that doesn't have an English equivalent. It is said to mean "a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe ... and the sad beauty of human suffering".
NX0vQ TIL that an episode of "Mannix" was held in the "Brady Bunch" house and John Ritter was the bad guy.
Rry1 TIL William Sokolin paid $519,750.00 for a bottle of 1787 vintage wine which supposedly had been owned by Thomas Jefferson, then later accidentally knocked it over, breaking it and spilling the precious contents on the floor.