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TIL that, initially, the Roswell UFO incident was almost immediately dismissed and forgotten until The National Enquirer ran a story on it in 1980.

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J185B TIL the kicker for the Dallas Cowboys, Brandon Aubrey, hadn't kicked a football until 2019. He was a pro soccer player before, was watching a game with his wife when the kicker missed a field goal, she said: "you could do that"
QjjX TIL there are currently plans underway to have sex in space by 2016
7X4O TIL: There is a mountain in Australia named Mount Disappointment because the view from the top disappointed British explorers.
oROWR TIL the original lyrics to Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ were about crib death
VBpXk TIL in 1985 the Supreme Court ruled that Long Island is not an Island, but a Peninsula!