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TIL Jon Fogerty from the band Creedence Clearwater Revival was sued by his record company for sounding too much like himself

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Z85GD TIL a 2019 University of Albany study of five highly and professionally documented unidentified aerial encounters concluded that the objects of interest possessed the acceleration requirements to achieve rapid interstellar travel.
loNQa TIL there's an island in Scotland owned by Tibetan Buddhists because the previous owner had a dream in which the Virgin Mary told her to give it to them.
gJAb TIL that China has a limit of 34 Hollywood movies imported per year. This is why movie directors try to protagonise China in their movies to try and get their movie into one of the 34 (eg The Martian where China helps NASA).
VBGym TIL that news bloopers are the best.
rNGLo TIL of Andras Toma, a Hungarian POW capturer near Krakow by Russians in 1945. None of the Russian doctors understood Hungarian, believing Andras to be speaking gibberish. It wasn't until 2000, when a Slovakian came around and understood he was speaking a real language. He was released after 55 years