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TIL a hacker in the UK hacked into NASA files and discovered a document entitled “Non-Terrestrial Officers Initiative”, referring to a fleet of manmade spaceships.

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wewP TIL that if you roll your mouse over the pronunciation text in wikipedia, it tells you in plain english how to pronounce the word (Try it here over ɒziˈmændiəs)
50nP TIL Mr. Rogers made a point of mentioning out loud when he was feeding his fish after he got a letter from a family whose blind daughter asked him to do so, because she couldn’t tell if the fish were being fed.
7r0MM TIL the ponds that are common in residential neighborhoods are not installed as water features, they’re actually retention basins used to offset the drainage capacity of the ground removed by paving roads and building houses
d8jO7 TIL that the first French territory that seaborne Allied forces captured on D-Day were the Îles Saint-Marcouf islands off the Normandy coast. Although they faced no resistance, the US troops suffered 19 casualties, killed and wounded, from mines that the Germans had left.
4jeg TIL Ben Franklin had a business turning old rag newspapers into pulp & paper. He later got the contract to print US currency & begat the term “rags to riches”