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TIL there’s been an unusually high number of cases involving young women disappearing along U.S. Route 29 in Virginia

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Y7xBA TIL that Wacker Drive in Chicago has three levels and is the only street in the city to have addresses with all four cardinal directions (N,S, E, W).
BrPKD TIL that, in 2014, OkCupid admitted experimenting on its users. Most notably, they ran experiments where they told people who were in fact bad matches that they were good matches, and vice versa. They found people talked more when OkCupid "matched" them and less likely when OkC "mismatched" them.
Zpk4D Dutch pink is yellow because “pink” wasn’t recognized as its own category until it was given the name of the flower dianthus, historically called a “pynk,” and though it comes in many colors, it the most common varieties are light red.
4klKN TIL the muscle relaxant Carisoprodol (Soma) was taken off the markets in Europe in 2008 for risk of causing intoxication (affecting mental state) and psychomotor impairment (unusual thoughts and difficulty co-ordinating movements).
v10k7 TIL each of the main musketeers in Dumas's "The Three Musketeers" is based on a real person. Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan was indeed a Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV. and even served Cardinal Mazarin in espionage. His memoirs inspired the whole of the D'Artagnan romances.