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TIL 20th Century Fox still owns Star Wars episodes 1-6 until 2020, except for A New Hope (4), which they will own forever

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4X0lR TIL of the Westall UFO encounter, which occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where more than 200 students and teachers saw a UFO in broad daylight.
yQlJa TIL of Arnold Rothstein, the most powerful of the Jewish gangsters, AKA The Brain. He was strongly believed to have fixed the 1919 World Series, and was the first to import scotch during Prohibition. He is believed to be the one who transformed disorganized crime into a business.
nkOW TIL there is a web-based business that will anonymously send animal feces to a person of your choosing
M8yA TIL that in 10th century Burma, King Theinhko was killed by a farmer when he took a cucumber from his farm. The farmer was accepted as king by the queen to prevent unrest in the kingdom and became known as the “Cucumber King”.
yV8jJ TIL: The May 18, 1980 Mount St Helens eruption caused the largest landslide in recorded history.