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TIL that in 1991 Spacewatch discovered an artificial body near earth that is now listed on the NASA Astrophysics data system as a possible alien probe that was observed in the vicinity of our planet. Its orbit will bring it back to earth in 2016.

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ZVko TIL its national sleepy head day in Finland. Where the last person asleep in the house is woken up by either being thrown into water or have water dumped on them.
691WY TIL that in a 25 year Christmas tradition, two Minnesota brothers-in-law regifted a pair of moleskin pants to one another gift wrapped in, among other things a 600 lb. welded safe, a crushed car, an 8ft. diameter concrete filled tire, a six ton x 17 ft. long rocket and a four ton Rubic's cube.
wMm8 TIL Chuck Yeager - first pilot to exceed Mach 1 - was shot down over France in WW2, taught bomb-making to Resistance groups who helped him, escaped into Spain, argued the high command into letting him back into combat against regulations, then became an Ace (bringing down 5 enemy aircraft) in 1 day.
NXEwb TIL - FBI is struggling to hire hackers due to a rule saying they shouldn’t have taken marijuana in the past 3 years.
RMRl TIL new research suggests that dolphins are second only to humans in smarts