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TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson is not an atheist.

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XoDE TIL in 2007 Richard Hammond abandoned his Porsche 911 after being caught up in traffic chaos caused by the floods to run 16 miles home for his daughter’s fourth birthday.
e0kw6 TIL that tumbleweeds are not actually native to North America, but Russia. While they are a quintessential image of the American West, tumbleweeds arrived from Russia in 1870, and are known to be invasive, often "driving ranchers out of their homes through sheer abundance."
R50D4 TIL According to the International Journal of Epidemiology and Health, one out of every twenty-five men will raise another man’s child and not know it.
1aA9D TIL that William Moore, a co-author of The Roswell Incident (the book that inspired the idea that the Roswell crash was an alien spacecraft), admitted in 1989 he lied to the UFO community for years in accordance with the US Airforce to deceive civilians
VMarB TIL British breweries donated free beer to soldiers during WWII, but after D-Day, there was no room for it on the ships going across the English Channel. Spitfire mechanics and pilots worked together to modify pylons to carry beer kegs and deliver brews to the troops. Flying high enough chilled it.