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TIL The International UFO Museum & Research Center was opened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1992 by Walter Haut, a been public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947. Many visitors come numerous times and some spend days or even weeks doing research in the library

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oBm4E TIL Alcohol doesn't make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories
4Xpmw TIL that over five million years ago the Mediterranean Sea almost dried up completely (after the closure of the Strait of Gibraltar) and when the strait opened up again it refilled somewhat rapidly in the event know as the Zanclean Flood.
Jjrk TIL the Singaporean military was established by Israel
QVma TIL the “bye! have a beautiful time!” guy at the end of American Dad is Security Officer Peña, a Venezuelan-American who worked at the office buildings where Family Guy and American Dad! are produced.
p864N TIL that people didn’t use to sleep for a straight 8 hours. Before electric lights and street lamps, people would sleep from ~8 to midnight, wake up, and then sleep from ~2 to sunrise. They’d use their couple of midnight hours to pray, read, or have sex