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

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nmQP TIL some birds display ultraviolet feather patterns that are invisible to the naked eye.
WkeNL TIL there are 7 days in a week thanks to the Babylonians, who lived in modern-day Iraq. As keen observers of the heavens, the Babylonians adopted 7 days because they observed 7 celestial bodies — the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
kMX5 TIL Tom Berenger once owned a restaurant called Twins, where the waitstaff consisted of 29 sets of identical twins.
eJMk TIL that during conservation efforts to save the critically endangered toolache wallaby, 10 of the last surviving members of the species were accidentally killed during efforts to capture them for a breeding program. The species is now extinct.
69e1Z TIL The entire Amazon basin is fertilized by diatom shell dust blown over the Atlantic from the Sahara desert