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TIL that the Vidocq Society - an elite global society of law enforcement professionals from numerous investigative, scientific and forensic specialties - will accept cold cases from law enforcement agencies and use their skills to help local police to solve the crimes on a pro bono basis.

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4ByN TIL of a practice in Afghanistan that has older,wealthier men have young boys dance for them and used as servants and sex slaves. It is called Bacha Bazi which translates to “playing with boys.”
nbdo TIL African-American physicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard’s first space flight by hand. When NASA used computers for the first time to calculate John Glenn’s orbit around Earth, officials called on Johnson to verify its numbers.
QQ4d TIL Frederick Fleet, the fellow that spotted the fatal iceberg that caused the Titanic to sink, survived and committed suicide 53 years later.
1gAD TIL that Kim Jong-il supposedly shot a 38 under par in golf his first time trying the sport. A feat that required no less than 5 hole in ones. The accomplishment is 25 shots better than the world record. Having been satisfied with his preformance, he promptly retired from the sport forever.
QNMnd TIL the Sargasso Sea, located entirely in the Atlantic Ocean, is the only sea without a land boundary on the planet.