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TIL child abduction by strangers are known as "stereotypical kidnappings" in the United States, despite being the rarest type of child abduction

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Z8vRG TIL that during the 1860s Italian reunification period, only about 2.5% of the future country could speak Italian.
NXgde TIL Devil's Advocate was an official position within the Catholic Church dedicated to uncovering flaws and misrepresenations of miracles during the process of canonizaion into sainthood
kEY4 TIL During the WWI fight for Belgrade, Serbia, German troops encountered a very stiff resistance, so German Field Marshal August von Mackensen erected a monument to the Serbian soldiers who died defending Belgrade, saying, “We fought against an army that we have heard about only in fairy tales.”
E1eBX TIL that the Roman ruins at Leptis Magna are some of the best preserved in the Mediterranian
mxeyP TIL that the oldest recorded sporting event was a 6 round boxing match between James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett vs Peter Courtney that took place in 1894.