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TIL in 1989, for April Fools’ Day, Virgin flew a UFO over London. When they landed, police “sent one lone policeman… across the field to greet the alien… A [character]…, dressed in an ET outfit, walked down the platform towards the bobby. He promptly turned and ran in the opposite direction!”

W79g9 TIL Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris on Saved By The Bell) dated his three female co-stars: Lark Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen, and Elizabeth Berkley while filming the show. Not even Zack pulled that off.
78pDb TIL after Taft's election as president, there was an attempt to replace the Teddy bear with Billy the Possum as the new popular plush toy. All because William Taft was very fond of opossum meat.
X018R TIL of J.R.R.Tolkien Cauldron of Story: the idea of a "pot" in which all our stories are boiled, we keep adding to that "pot", mixing on flavours already there and adding its own new taste as well. Telling new story, you use things long-since added to the big Cauldron—whether you intend to or not.
rROaM TIL that a strain of genital warts from SE Asia appears to be older than Homo sapiens and might have been acquired through intimate contact with a now extinct human species
7vjr TIL that ‘Star Trek’ TV episodes are unusual in that syndication prices rose over time, instead of declining like most reruns, because fans watched each episode dozens of times. Their enormous popularity led to the revival of the franchise after the series’ cancellation after three seasons.