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TIL that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO in 1969

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0wKmy TIL that in 2017, a dead grasshopper was found in an 1889 Vincent van Gogh painting. A scientist discovered that the insect’s thorax and abdomen were missing and there was no sign of movement in the surrounding paint. So, it was already dead when it somehow landed on the artist’s wet canvas.
aw0VN TIL the USSR changed to a six day week to force Christians to work on Sunday and made Christmas a national day of work
4kk5 TIL Pope Benedict VIII condemned cats as evil and had them burned by the thousands. This led to an explosion of the rat population and attributed to the effects of the Black Death
J1mMQ TIL On top of being a sponsor and collector of fine art, King Ferrante of Naples also had a private "black museum", a collection of his dead enemies, mummified and dressed in the clothes they wore during lifetime. He would give his guests a tour of the black museum, likely as an intimidation tactic
epww6 TIL the wolfman from Monster Squad played Uncle flippin' Rico in Napoleon Dynamite.