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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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wK57 TIL Queen frontman Freddie Mercury had an overbite which he refused to surgically correct out of fear it would affect his singing voice.
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