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TIL In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) the ship Cotopaxi was discovered in the Gobi desert, presumably left there by Aliens. At that time the ship was believed to have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1925, but was discovered in 1985 in Florida, and not verified until 2020.

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oyMW TIL there’s an island in the pacific where many of the residents are completely color blind, only able to perceive black and white colors. However, they often take a psychedelic drug which allow them to perceive colored hallucinations.
Z84dp TIL The sunfish can grow as big as a pickup truck and can carry up to 40 kinds of parasites. They let cleaner fish feast on the parasites. But some of the toughest parasites need to be removed by seagulls. The seagulls surgically cut into the fish's flesh to eat the most stubborn of parasites.
e0oJn TIL: The Bay View Massacre occurred in 1886 when workers demanded an 8-hour workday. When the workers shut down the town, the Governor of Wisconsin gave the National Guard orders to shoot-to-kill. When the Guard Captain got the orders, he picked a man out of the crowd and had him shot.
VMKAB TIL of Kris Boesen, a young man who is the first fully quadriplegic person to regain use of his arms after an experimental stem cell injection surgery; he was paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash, and then had surgery which injected 10 million AST-OPC1 cells.
a89eL TIL of the "Skin Hunters", a group of Polish ER workers that murdered elderly people, then sold information about the deceased patients to competing funeral homes, so they could contact the relatives before other funeral homes could.