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TIL Amelia Earhart likely survived and sent distress signals for weeks after disappearing, but the authorities immediately presumed all signals to be hoaxes with no further investigation

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Z8Ona TIL In Australia, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta is held annually on the dry Todd riverbed. Competitors run down the course carrying bottomless boats. It was cancelled once, in 1993, due to flooding
rYRW TIL that the woman who won $2.9 million by suing McDonald’s over spilled hot coffee asked for only $20,000, to cover her medical bills.
4p0g TIL that Stalin was only 5 ft 4 in tall. He had painters shot who didn’t depict him “right.”
pjYA TIL Concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, British colonial officials created a bounty, only to discover secret cobra farms created to collect the bounty. When the officials shut down the program the farms released their snakes, meaning they had far more cobras than before they started.
1yr7 TIL in the first eight months of 1977 alone, Elvis Presley’s doctor prescribed him more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines and narcotics