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TIL of the Solway Firth Spaceman, a mysterious figure seen in a 1964 photograph that no one knew the identity of for five decades. The photographer was visited by two men in black not long after, fueling the fire of UFOlogists who believed it to be a conspiracy

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R7Lnj TIL That in 1957 Little Richard saw a bright red fireball flying across the sky, which he took as "sign from God" to repent from performing secular music and his wild lifestyle at the time until 1962. The fireball actually was the launching of the first artificial Earth satellite Sputnik 1.
W7QW9 TIL oyster mushrooms are not just a source of food, they can also be made into mycellium, which in turns can be used to make bricks and house furniture. They can also be used to decontaminate the environment, for example to treat soil that had been polluted with diesel oil.
gMaB7 TIL in an effort to demonstrate time dilation, a father and his kids drove three atomic clocks up Mt. Rainier. The measured effect was just over 20 nanoseconds, matching Einstein's theory of relativity.
WRod TIL there was a 14-year old boy who died after the height adjustment cylinder on his chair exploded, shooting metal shrapnel into his rectum.
e0YO4 TIL For his role in the Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 life sentences plus 9300 years, without parole. His sentence is declared as the longest officially confirmed sentence ever handed down in the world.