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TIL In 1994, 60 children at Ariel school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe said they'd seen a 'UFO' and 'aliens with big eyes' in bush land near their school playground. The story was reported around the world.

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84WZ TIL Charlotte Brontë wrote much of her early fiction in microscopic handwriting. One manuscript contains 4,000 words over 19 pages and is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.
GGVE TIL After Franklin Roosevelt called Joe Kennedy, father of JFK, to Washington, D.C. to clean up the securities industry, somebody asked FDR why he had tapped such a crook. “Takes one to catch one,” replied Roosevelt.
ELgo TIL: the US solar industry employs twice the amount of workers than that of coal, oil, and natural gas combined
j6XrX TIL a Nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level during the annual flood season
VM5Am TIL every crewed spaceflight by the Soviet Union and Russia from the first crewed spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin until 2002 used a mechanical computer as navigation instrument