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TIL that a ship abandoned off the coast of Alaska in 1931 was spotted, still adrift in the Arctic, in 1969

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kOdQB TIL that a physician and sexual predator named John Schneeberger successfully foiled several DNA tests by surgically installing a tube in his arm filled with someone else's blood and then tricking the lab tech into taking the blood sample from it.
xVYao TIL that skywriting was invented by the Royal Air Force in World War I to send messages to troops on the ground. After the war, Pepsi built a fleet of skywriting biplanes.
l7v1G TIL There is a village populated almost entirely by realistic dolls in Japan.
KO8N9 TIL Hasbro has trademarked the smell of Play-Doh. It is described as a “sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.”
KOpPa TIL the drummer of Black Keys Patrick Carney was testing out his new studio in Tennessee and sent some chords to his uncle, who then added sax and trombone sounds to go with it. It was all compiled by the time Noel Bright was looking for a theme song for Bojack and became first pick.