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TIL Carl Sagan wrote a peer-reviewed paper while at Stanford with a NASA grant outlining it is probable aliens have visited the earth and feasible they have impacted our civilizations.

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xVOoo TIL the common pigeon is the 7th fastest animal on the planet. The cheetah ranks 12th.
nWWxr TIL that the remains of over 4000 Confederate Soldiers who died while Prisoners of War are buried in Oak Woods Cemetery in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. A 30 foot tall monument marks their mass grave.
gMwVD TIL One of the first soldiers to charge the beach on D-Day was a Canadian bagpiper, who only survived because he said German Snipers thought he was to crazy to shoot
mxwvM TIL there was a conspiracy theory, actually investigated by some in British intelligence, that prime minister Harold Wilson was a KGB mole, and that the leader of the Labour Party before him was assassinated to clear his path to power
gr65W TIL the parasitic wasp Habrobracon can cope with over 180 times of a Human’s lethal radiation exposure. While a Cockroach can survive 6 to 15 times the lethal dose for Human’s.