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TIL when a man named Paul Bennewitz had discovered a ‘secret alien base’ through radio signals that actually turned out to be secret government flight tests, the US government decided to throw him off by sending an agent to feed him false information, urging him to pursue his UFO fantasy.

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P1Jee TIL Mount Erebus is the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. The volcano has been active for around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s
j69BE TIL that octopuses have three hearts, and two of them stop beating when they swim.
ne1B9 TIL Rotting potatoes give off a noxious gas that can knock a person unconscious & even cause death.
98Em TIL The Room (2003) is one of the few movies to pass the Bechdel Test: two female characters talk to eachother about something other than a man.
D1Lop TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan dove into freezing water to rescue passengers from a sunken trolleybus, caught pneumonia ending his career as an Olympic swimmer and then saved people from a burning building