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TIL in December 1967, then sitting Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt went missing while swimming and was never found. Shortly after, a community swimming pool in Melbourne was named after him...

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neJB9 TIL in January 1968 a US bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed into an ice sheet in Greenland. Only three of the bombs were found, one still remains missing.
ba90 TIL A wolverine once killed a polar bear in a zoo by latching onto its throat and suffocating it to death
7DDp TIL Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) was required to be accompanied by crewmembers who wore high-visibility vests while in the forests of the Pacific Northwest filming scenes set on Endor, so as not to be mistaken for Bigfoot and shot.
6gRJ TIL the Slovakian women’s hockey team qualified for the 2010 Olympics by beating Bulgaria 82-0, and then lost to team Canada in Vancouver 18-0
0oMj TIL Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg won a Nobel Prize for his cure for Syphilis. He’d treat it by giving the patient Malaria.