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TIL some reindeer really do have red noses, a result of densely packed blood vessels near the skin’s surface

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M7VDW TIL the UK had been sending convicts to America for decades before the revolution there made them switch to Australia
6Ewyl TIL that in 1970 an American pilot William Schaffner was sent to intercept a UFO over England. His plane was later found in the sea but his body was not located. The cockpit was sealed shut.
6958Y TIL about Abell 39, one of the largest known spheres with a radius of 1.3 lightyears
R5dj6 TIL:Theodore Roosevelt beat up a man and locked him in a shed afterwards
n9r TIL that, in a July 2007 poll surveying Russian 16-19 year olds, half of the respondents agreed that Stalin was a “good leader.” 54% said that he did more good than bad.