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WkX88 TIL of William Howard Hughes, a United States Air Force officer with security clearance and expertise in rocket self-destruct technology, vanished in 1983. Authorities feared he had defected to the Soviet Union. In June 2018, he was found living in California under an assumed name.
ne7od TIL of one of the most inaccurately named men in history: Charles Coward. While in German captivity, he traded clothes with a Jewish inmate so he could report to the British on what was happening in Auschwitz, and later testifyed in Nuremberg.
JYpAV TIL about the Banach–Tarski Paradox where mathematically it is possible to split an object in to multiple parts and recombine them into two exact copies of the original without adding new material.
78ONM TIL the Chevy Suburban has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
OGeWL TIL that the sales of Blue Tang Fish did not increase after the movie Finding Dory. The Nemo effect isn't true thankfully.