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TIL that in 2010 we started to receive radio waves from an unknown object in the nearby galaxy m82. The radio emission is unidentifiable and doesn’t look like anything seen before

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x6565 TIL of the Civil Cooperation Bureau, a government death squad in Apartheid South Africa. Accused of murders, they also bombed a kindergarten, harassed a dissident by pointing a RPG7 at him while forcing him to drink moonshine, and tried to bewitch Desmond Tutu by hanging a baboon fetus in his home.
b6gO0 TIl that in 1994 during an attempted diplomatic visit to Ireland Boris Yeltsin caused a diplomatic incident when his plane landed at Shannon airport and he failed to step off the plane onto Irish soil because he was too drunk to walk
gMOEL TIL: As part of her sentence for abandoning 35 kittens in the woods, an Ohio woman was ordered to spend a night alone in the woods without water, food, or entertainment.
AlWw TIL there’s a man in England who, after reading a book about King Arthur, was astonished to see so many similarities between himself and the Arthur of the book, so decided to change his name to Arthur Uther Pendragon, and thinks of himself a reincarnation of the King.
npxY TIL an early Soviet space station, Salyut 3, was fitted with a space cannon which was test fired at the end of the stations operations.