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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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PYXDO TIL that Redondo Beach, California's official city bird is the Goodyear Blimp.
0m51 TIL Swaziland’s 1 Lilangeni coin is identical in weight and dimensions to the £1 coin and can be used in vending machines. It’s worth £0.06
9YjYX TIL of a theory that suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians in the first millennium BC
rx4 TIL The first Director of the CIA admitted the existence of UFOs
ANEB TIL that you can completely disrupt a person’s speech and make them shut up simply by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay.