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TIL 800,000+ kids go missing the USA every year, equivalent to over 2100 per day.

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JYdQv TIL of Sophie Scholl, a political activist who was executed for high treason after handing out anti-war leaflets in Nazi Germany
69M5X TIL that those oxygen masks that come down inside airplanes are connected to individual “chemical oxygen generators” rather than a supply of oxygen gas
VMrk0 TIL that it takes only 8-minutes for sunlight to reach the Earth, but can take up to 170,000 years for it to travel from the Sun's core to its surface. This is because the photons travel in a nonlinear path known as a random walk process - looks pretty similar to a convoluted zig zag.
BgoYk TIL: Exploding Head Syndrome where a sudden imaginary loud noise startles you awake is related to myoclonus.
4QG6 TIL After a hospital error, two pairs of identical twins were raised in separate families as two pairs of fraternal twins. They found each other 25 years later.