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TIL of the Westall UFO encounter, which occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where more than 200 students and teachers saw a UFO in broad daylight.

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69g7Y TIL that a gothic soap opera ran in the 60s and early 70s called Dark Shadows. This show was focused on the lives of the Colins family who’s characters dealt supernatural monsters and being such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts, witches, and other creatures.
R7p88 TIL Black Bears are killed for their skins to make Marge Simpson type hats for the Queen's Guards. In 2015, they purchased 122 hats for £1,224 each. There have been calls by animal rights groups to phase out this practice.
gbe8 TIL that Godzilla’s roar was created using a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin and rubbing it against the string of a double bass
rXMe TIL that a Native American people, the Choctaw, donated money to the Irish during the Great Famine after suffering starvation themselves in the Trail of Tears
ZK8Q TIL: Amazon’s profits for its entire existence are still less than what ExxonMobil takes home every 2.5 weeks.