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TIL in 2004 someone offered to pay the government $12 for information about aliens killing JFK.

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Z8eMa TIL that hill valley from back to the Future was a set used in many shows including twilight zone, to kill a mockingbird and leave it to beaver. Just to name a few.
xV11b TIL American football is based on “rugby football” and soccer is based on “association football”. Both of them are called “football” because they were played on foot as opposed to horseback.
QN0GX TIL in the movie Raiders Of The Lost Ark Harrison Ford playing the Indiana Jones character in one now famous scene goes off script and shoots a swordsman because he had to go the toilet because he had a case of dysentery and the director chose to keep the scene.
woPL7 TIL there is a species of anglerfish that mostly swims upside down
loRkG TIL about the Order of Malta, the smallest sovereign state in the world. It only has 2 or 3 citizens and owns a few buildings in Rome.