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TIL that in old Nokia phones, the notification tone for an SMS was simply 'SMS' in Morse

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weoM TIL John Lennon once saw a UFO. Lennon called his photographer who told him to call the police, but Lennon laughed and said, “I’m not going to call up the newspaper and say, ‘This is John Lennon and I saw a flying saucer last night’.”
W7EOo TiL that emotional support pigs exist. They're utilized in nursing homes, hospitals, and special-needs schools and have been provided to people facing autism, anxiety, and PTSD.
W5xN TIL for the film Dogma, Jason Mewes memorized not only his own dialogue but the entire screenplay, because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude”
ANgEd TIL medicine pill bottles seem mostly empty because they need to be large enough to read the labels
P15AG TIL that the current “land speed record” - the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land - is 763 mph. It was achieved in 1997 by Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green and has not been beaten since.