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TIL a naked man in California was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.

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6anW TIL that the United States spent more than $2 billion digging 24km of tunnels in Texas for a particle accelerator similar in scope to CERN, only to abandon the project.
GEPG TIL in 1969, a musician named Jim Sullivan recorded an album called “U.F.O.“, which featured strange lyrics about leaving his family and being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later without a trace, the only piece of evidence being his abandoned car found on a desert road.
ADY9B TIL That the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes, Richard Lancelyn Green, was found dead in his flat in 2004 in very mysterious circumstances. Green at the time of death was attempting to stop a Christies auction of Holmes artefacts from taking place and ending up in collectors hands.
PYjLV TIL: About the Nazi's Lebensborn program which served to raised racially pure Aryan babies. They also kidnapped "perfect" babies from foreign nations and even dyed the hair of some of them. A famous Lebensborn baby eventually became a member of ABBA.
LBAm TIL that Monica’s apartment from “Friends” is estimated to cost $3,500,000