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TIL in 1980 a Peruvian fighter pilot chased and shot at a UFO in what is the only documented case of a military aircraft successfully firing at a UFO.

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b9Z9j TIL accusing someone of being a witch was illegal in Medieval times, since the Church held that witches didn't exist, so it was a heretical claim. The big witch-hunts occurred in the early modern era.
d8k5r TIL after Nicole van den Hurk's death, her stepbrother falsely confessed to the killing in order to get her body exhumed for DNA tests, leading to the arrest and prosecution of her real attacker
R549l TIL a black slave soldier that fought in the revolutionary War lived to see the abolition of slavery, about 80 years after the war ended
XE87k TIL Approximately 0.5 - 1 tons of Titanic's wreck is turning to rust every day. It is expected to collapse entirely within 50 years.
pxye TIL that into the 1950s the most reliable and fastest pregnancy test was to expose female toads to the woman’s urine. If the woman was pregnant, elevated levels of the hormone hCG would cause the toad to develop eggs within 24 hours.