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TIL Jimmy Carter is the only US president who has reported seeing an UFO

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agao TIL it takes two weeks to manufacture an Atomic Fireball- and it is composed at least one hundred of layers of candy
x5XD TIL Thailand has highest number of female CEOs globally
JYEL4 TIL the stocks and pillory were in use in Delaware until 1905 and they had a whipping post until 1972.
69QKw TIL In 1894, the American Railway Union organized a national boycott and strike against all trains hauling Pullman Cars in response to a strike called by workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company. 34 were killed over 2 weeks.
d8aEQ TIL that Zeppo, the youngest Marx Brother, invented a wristwatch that monitored the pulse rate of cardiac patients and gave off an alarm if the heartbeat became irregular. He was a friend of Frank Sinatra, with whom his wife Barbara had an affair and later married. He became a theatrical agent.