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TIL: Shelly Miscavige, wife of head Scientologist David Miscavige, has been ‘missing’ since 2007

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GAxo7 TIL that the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic holds the bones of 40,000–70,000 people, and they’ve been turned into art. We’re talking bone chandeliers (with every type of human bone), garlands of skulls, and bell-shaped bone mounds in every corner.
M74v8 TIL 3 men escaped Alcatraz in a raft made of raincoats. The FBI never found them.
rNEGW TIL Ohio is one of the top salt exporters in the country. 1,800 feet beneath Lake Erie is Whiskey Island's salt mine, a 12 square-mile mine.
6EQV8 TIL there is a subway station near the World Trade Center that still hasn't opened since it was damaged during 9/11. It's finally expected to open in October 2018.
9Y1lG TIL that the musician Lenny Kravitz is named after his uncle who was awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for his actions during the Korean War