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TIL of Joan Risch, Housewife who disappeared in 1960's from her blood-smeared house, leaving her children behind ; had checked out multiple books on disappearances from the local library before vanishing.

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16Ojr TIL about herma, a sculpture with a head and a torso above a plain lower section, on which male genitals were carved at the appropriate height. In ancient Greece the statues were thought to ward off harm or evil. They would be rubbed or anointed with olive oil and adorned with garlands or wreaths
bAdj TIL in 2009 CD Singles sales ‘officially’ died when Florence and the Machine charted at number 16 in the UK after selling a whopping 64 physical copies of their single
4R9o TIL the warship which fired the first shots of WWI was captured once, scuttled twice, raised and refurbished, served under 4 different nations throughout both world wars and is now currently operating as a gravel barge in Serbia.
O8RL TIL there is a unique species of octopus called “mimic octopus” that has the ability to mimic other sea creatures like sea snakes, lionfish, flatfish, brittle stars, giant crabs, sea shells, stingrays, jellyfish, sea anemones, and mantis shrimp. It also intelligently mimic it based upon the threat.
JY8Rj TIL Berlin Germany has an airport Brandenburg(BER) that has been under construction for 14 years with constant delayed openings with no real end in sight. It has never seen a single passenger and may actually never open, making it one of the costliest public construction debacles in history.