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TIL of the Montreal Place Bonaventure UFO Incident

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8kwa TIL A retired U.S. Army Officer led a 12-member mercenary group to successfully rescue his mother’s friend who had been kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf terrorists in Malaysia
VMJM4 TIL that other than humans, chimpanzees and rats are the only animals that can laugh.
JYWO4 TIL The Far Side's cartoonist, Gary Larson, has three species of of insects, one a chewing louse, named after him to thank him for the celebration of science in the comic.
W76K8 TIL that elements of the ancient Mesopotamian religion (first formed in the 6th millennium BC) may have survived until the early 20th century. The Shamsīyah, a sect of sun-worshippers, persisted in southeastern Turkey (sometimes outwardly adopting Christian customs) until the early 1900s.
OAdX TIL Stephen Hawking provided the voice of his own head in a jar on Futurama.