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TIL: That in 1970, Lula Cora Hood, a single mother of four in Illinois, vanished after a family argument. Decades later, a skeleton found in 1996 was thought to be hers. However, in 2011, 84-year-old Lula was discovered alive in Jacksonville, Florida.

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