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TIL Aliens are real

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GNW4 TIL Dennis Rader, the “BTK” killer, contacted police and asked “Can I communicate with Floppy and not be traced to computer? Be honest.” Police told him he could, and Rader sent them a disk. Forensic analysts then identified him through metadata from a deleted MS Word file the disk contained.
o8lY TIL there have been 13 instances where nuclear weapons were nearly launched due to accidents and false alarms.
9YvlQ TIL the oldest living human-planted tree in the world with a known planting date is the sacred fig tree "Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi", planted in 288 BC.
wQQ7 TIL In 1990 Muhammad Ali went to Iraq and negotiated the release 15 United States civilians being held captive by meeting personally with Saddam Hussein
XE6rj TIL about The Epic If Gilgamesh. The oldest surviving work of literature in existence dating back over 4,000 years. It features a demigod hunting for immortality and an account of a great flood very simular to the biblical one.