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TIL that the United Nations has formed a contingency plan in the event that aliens directly contact us

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oRBGE TIL The Blue Angels, the U.S. Flight Navy Demonstration Squadron, formed in April 1946 as the Navy Flight Exhibition Team. They changed their name after seeing the New York nightclub, The Blue Angel. The team was first introduced as the Blue Angels during an air show in July 1946.
R5lLw TIL that Robert Fulton's steamship was named North River Steamboat, and that the name it's popularly called today, Clermont, was due to an error in a biography of Fulton. No accounts of the vessel being called Clermont during Fulton's lifetime have been found.
5Ydyn TIL of the Hutterites; a religious group similar to the Amish, with the exception that they utilize modern equipment and technology to run complex farming and manufacturing operations on hundreds of colonies across the Western US and Canada.
Zppk4 TIL that the picture of George Washington on the $1 bill is based off an unfinished portait of him.
xAGb TIL if your property is foreclosed in Spain, you will have to work for the bank to pay off your loan.