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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!”

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nvPG TIL A man named Joe Lozito fought off a serial killer on a subway of New York, while police were aware they stood behind the conductors doors until Lozito disarmed him, the NYPD apparently has no duty to protect the citizens of New York
MjAB TIL a second is called a second because it is the second division of the hour by 60, the first being a minute.
v17Lj TIL about the feud between Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra over the affections of Ava Gardner, culminating in Sinatra driving a golf cart through a café window, a resulting fist-fight in which Sinatra lost two teeth, and ultimately led to the Mob's withdrawal from Vegas.
kOkRE TIL of the Fermi Paradox: There's a high possibility that intelligent alien life exists but no actual evidence of it.
BVee TIL Otto von Bismarck once stated that when war came to Europe “it will be some damn fool thing in the Balkans that sets it off” thirty years before Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which kicked off the start of World War One.