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TIL The Titanic Was Found During a Secret Cold War Navy Mission

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78OaP TIL About How, in the 18th Century, over 700 children were kidnapped from the streets of Aberdeen and sent to North America and sold as slaves.
dPRj TIL: Pedro López, a South American serial killer confirmed to have killed 110 people and confessed to have killed more than 300 between 1969 and 1980, was released in 1998 on good behaviour. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
rRlXe TIL That for 200 years tomatoes were considered poisonous in Europe. In reality, their acidity was dissolving poisonous metals like lead from plates.
J1vpV Til that the bible takes 75+ hours to listen to in its entirety as an audiobook
Bryvb TIL when Paul Verhoeven first received the script for Robocop, he threw it away in disgust after glancing through it. His wife picked it up from the bin and read through it more thoroughly, and persuaded him that it had more substance than he initially thought.