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TIL Bobby Dunbar, a four year old American boy, disappeared in 1912. After an eight-month nationwide search, they belived they had found the boy. The parents claimed the boy as their son. He lived his life as 'Bobby Dunbar.' In 2004, DNA profiling revealed he was not related to the family.

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QJrYk TIL the United States, under Reagan, forced both Japan and Germany to sign the Plaza Accord. The agreement that would depreciate the Dollars at the costs of Yen and Mark appreciating greatly. This decision utterly destroyed Japan’s economy in the 1990s and beyond.
ZL5v TIL that in July of 2015, Mitchelle Blair received a life sentence without possibility for parole after torturing and murdering two of her four children, ages 9 and 13, based on claims from her youngest child that the two had molested him. She then stored their bodies in her home freezer.
X0wAj TIL that George Takei respectfully declined an offer to voice himself in the Simpsons episode Marge vs. the Monorail because he didn't want to ridicule public transportation
O6p7 TIL when Billy Dee Williams was questioned about his appearances in the Colt 45 Malt Liquor commercials, he is alleged to have said, “I drink, you drink. Hell, if marijuana was legal, I’d appear in a commercial for that, too.”
rNRBM TIL when one adventurer drove a Jeep Wrangler to the world record altitude of 6,646 m, he left a sign saying "Jeep Parking Only: All others don't make it up here anyway.". The next record breakers, who had a Suzuki Samurai and climbed up to 6,688 m on the same volcano, removed that sign.