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TIL of Elizabeth Shoaf. She was abducted by a sexual predator & held underground. Using her wit, she gained his trust & managed to get his phone. She text home & police traced it. They stupidly publicly released that she text home & the abductor heard it on the radio. Police saved her in time.

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yQRbv TIL after the mistress of famed rocket engineer and occultist Jack Parsons began an affair with science fiction writer and eventual founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, Parsons attempted to conjure a new girlfriend by masturbating onto "magical" tablets.
wLDDW TIL Princess Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a glass piano as a child. This delusion was not unheard of and was recorded in Europe and mainly suffered by royals, nobels and scholars (between C15 and C17). It was manifest as a fear that parts of their anatomy were made of glass.
mReo TIL that the custom of the ace being over the king and queen originated after the French Revolution, to symbolize the lower classes overthrowing the nobility.
9YAZM TIL about serial killer Robert Hansen who would kidnap women, then release them in the woods in Alaska and hunt them with a rifle and knife
WkZRd TIL that Nicolas Cage did NOT steal a chihuahua and has successfully sued Kathleen Turner, her book publisher, and The Daily Mail for those rumors