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TIL about St Dunstan in the East, a London church destroyed in WWII and turned into a beautiful open roof garden

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YNBZ TIL Astronomers have discovered 18 giant blue stars being ejected out of our galaxy and scientists are unsure how the stars are being propelled.
VB0NQ TIL Haitian-American Joe Gaetjens, the sole goal-scorer in the upset victory over England in the 1950 World Cup, would later be kidnapped by Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier's secret police. He was taken to a prison notorious for torture and never heard of again until confirmed dead in 1972.
JYlyB TIL of japanese nose tombs that contain up to 20 thousand pickled noses taken from dead Koreans 400 years ago as war trophies
OGPg6 TIL that after the USS Thresher submarine sank & imploded in 1963 due to construction and engineering oversights, an admiral remarked: "...it is important that we re-evaluate our present practices where, in the desire to make advancements, we may have forsaken the fundamentals of good engineering."
4X94w TIL of the Korean TV programme, 'Finding Dispersed Families', that aired in 1983 and was responsible for reuniting over 10,000 Koreans with family that they had lost during the Korean War. Originally planned to be 95 minutes, the programme went on to run for 453 hours, with over 53,000 participants.