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TIL Milling is a training activity in the British airborne infantry. For a fixed period, two opponents punch each other in the head as aggressively as possible without evasion. An instructor described milling as "arguably the most important event of the [training] course"and its "flagship event"

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v1xND TIL that Ufo abductees Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have been taken to a planet in the Zeta Reticuli galaxy. Coincidentally, Bob Lazar, the area 51 whistleblower, says Ufos he worked on reverse engineering were from a planet in that galaxy as well.
v8Yr TIL classical Greek and Roman architecture was actually polychromatic, meaning they were painted colorfully and intricately. This contradicts classical revivals that mimicked the stark stone structures that were left after the paint wore off.
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