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TIL Duffy disappeared from the public because she was drugged, kidnapped and abused for 4 weeks

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RPaw TIL Jimmy Carter said if he became president, he would release all government UFO information to the public. Once elected, he decided not to due to “national security concerns.”
x6PWo TIL Facebook tracks your entire internet browsing history & MORE (files you send/receive; e-mails; camera information; audio messages) then catalogs it within your profile. (Yes, you can disable it)
PY9ZO TIL that at birth Johnny Cash was named J. R. Cash. When he enlisted in the United States Air Force, he was not permitted to use initials as a first name, so he changed his name to John R. Cash. In 1955, after signing with Sun Records, he started going by Johnny Cash.
pLMA TIL of Camp Century, a top-secret US military base built under the ice sheets of Greenland in 1960 to house missiles. Built under the cover of climate research, it housed 200 people and was powered by the world’s first portable nuclear reactor. Denmark didn’t uncover the base’s existence until 1995.
gaK4 TIL the ‘tattoo gun’ that artists commonly use today was originally a pen that could write through multiple pieces of paper invented by Thomas Edison in 1876. It was modified in 1891 for use with tattooing.