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TIL Debra McKenna forgot a class ring gifted by her then fiancé in a department store in Maine in 1973. A worker found it 47 years later with a metal detector, buried in a forest in Finland.

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69vWY TIL that during the summer of 2002, Mr. Rogers' chronic stomach pain became severe enough for him to see a doctor about it, and in October 2002, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He died four months later on February 27, 2003 at the age of 74.
GYo9j TIL that Jedediah Smith, an explorer of the American West, survived a bear attack. The animal had smashed his ribs, torn off his scalp, and chewed one of his ears off. He calmly told a friend to sew his scalp and severed ear back on. After 10 days, he was again leading his expedition.
7r7gr TIL as a U.S. Navy officer, Jimmy Carter helped clean up after the first nuclear reactor accident in Canada in 1952
B4Qd TIL I learned Charles Lindbergh used a mask called an Armbrust cup to reclaim the water from his breath. 34 years before Dune was published.
mxnkv TIL Language of Jesus (Western neo - Aramaic) is now only spoken in three villages in Syria (Maaloula, Jubb'adin and Bakhah) and is getting extinct.