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TIL of the Montreal Place Bonaventure UFO Incident

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yVPga TIL about the Barnes Opening, considered one of the worst chess openings and deemed as having almost no strategic advantages and a lot of drawbacks.
QJ8xd TIL in the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus," Billy Bucherson coughed up real life moths. He was fitted with a mouth piece, which consisted of a latex pouch that held the dirt and moths.
jNgv TIL Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, a former Alcatraz inmate, visited San Francisco and had a touristy photo taken as an Alcatraz prisoner, AS A FUGITIVE.
NXyw6 TIL - Baby teeth are numbered differently than grown up teeth. Adult teeth are labeled by quadrants 1-4 (which I knew), but baby teeth are labeled by quadrants 5-8.
QJg56 TIL that to many Icelanders, WW2 is actually known as blessað stríðið – “the blessed war" as the country has the war to thank for its independence.