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TIL in 1960 the heir to the Coors beer fortune was abducted and murdered

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p88Eb TIL more Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water and electricity.
p8aYG TIL Murder rates in Miami, Florida were so high during the 1970s and 1980s that the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office had to rent a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to handle the overflow of corpses
Bp0K TIL that there is a medical condition called Derealization, and it’s when you don’t feel real.
MbK7 TIL that “The Elf on the Shelf” is criticized for teaching kids that it’s okay to be spied on, another tool of the surveillance state
e0915 TIL Murgatroyd - as in "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" - is a family name and not some nonsense made up for Snagglepuss