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TIL that the first CIA director stated in a letter to Congress that "high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense."

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eegD TIL Dolphins can see our skeletons and heartbeats via their sonar and have even been known to ward off sharks preying on humans.
74Kp TIL that since 1617, breaches of etiquette at Oxford University have been punished by making the offender drink up to four pints of beer in one go.
P1LEE TIL- The Apollo 11 astronaut left Lunar Laser Retro-Reflectors on the moon and NASA has been conducting experiments with them for over 50 years thus proving the moon landings happened.
7r6kp TIL: We call lions "King of the Jungle" even though they don't live in the jungle because of a translation error. The orginal phrase in Hindi was "King of the Wasteland" but their word for Wasteland sounds like the word jungle.
BWEK TIL that in July, after receiving a warning from the FBI on his PC, Jay Matthew Riley turned himself in to police for possessing child pornography. The warning was fake and generated by a worm that had infected his computer.