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TIL that big band composer/musician Glenn Miller went missing in action in 1944 and no trace of him has ever been found

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PYwJV TIL that Charles Morton, a 17th century minister and scientist, wrote a treatise on how birds migrated to the Moon and back every winter. Morton believed that they would encounter no air resistance or be affected by gravity, and use excess fat to sustain themselves.
EgQJ7 TIL Scott Joplin, the groundbreaking "King of Ragtime", died penniless of syphilitic dementia in 1917 in a sanitarium at just 48 and was buried in an unmarked grave, largely forgotten until a revival of interest in ragtime in the 70s led to him winning a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
XoXP TIL Homosexual swans will have temporary threesomes with a female swan to obtain an egg, then they drive her away.
xNBb TIL in 1934 King George V said in response to the growing power of the Nazi Party that Germany was now the peril of the world, and that should it carry on at its present rate, there was bound to be a war within 10 years.
Zpvwo TIL the James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of potential life on exoplanet K2-18b.