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TIL a Seatlle punk band The Gits had a lead singer who was murdered in the 90s. DNA found her murderer a decade later.

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xVNOg TIL that Ugandan boxer Kassim Ouma was kidnapped at the age of six and forced to join the National Resistance Army. While in the army he was never shot, however, after moving to the US he was shot twice
AD9ma TIL about the proposed second bill of rights by Roosevelt that would include: medical care, a decent home, a good education, a job etc.
Wk6p9 TIL of Mir—a Russian space station launched in 1986 that lasted 15 years. It hosted the first wheat grown in space, the longest human presence, and survived several fires. When it began falling apart, astronaut Mike Foal said it was “a bit like a frat house, but more organized and better kept.”
bZAa TIL that a woman who disappeared in 1937 was found floating in a lake 3 years later, and her body had turned into soap.
QVAp TIL the day after the Burning of Washington D.C. by British troops in 1814, a possible hurricane put out the flames, followed by a tornado that forced the British back to their ships. It became known as the “Storm that Saved Washington.”