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TIL someone bought Lee Harvey Oswald’s Life Insurance for $80K

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Xo0P TIL that, during a Japan Air Lines flight from Paris to Tokyo, a massive UFO was spotted flying alongside the airplane, with the event captured on radar data. Officials from the FAA, CIA, and FBI all declared it the first radar data of a UFO.
QNNZa TIL President Harry S Truman's middle name is just "S", so it's correct to write his full name as Harry S Truman OR Harry S. Truman. He himself went back and forth on the correct way to write it.
X0ZVr TIL about "Giant Mine" in NWT, Canada a mine that contains enough arsenic to kill every person on earth several times over. The arsenic has no half life so it will be just as deadly in 1,000,000 years. The government of Canada is currently trying to stop it from leaking into the environment.
dWvB TIL in 1976, Steve Jobs offered Atari founder Nolan Bushnell a 30% stake in Apple if Bushnell would put $50,000 towards the company. He said no. “It’s kind of fun to think about that, when I’m not crying.”
6E7NQ TIL due to high ruble inflation during the fall of the USSR, parody dollar bills dropped by AC/DC during their concert in Moscow were used in monetary transactions and considered more valuable than rubles.