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TIL The Nation of Islam teaches that its founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad, boarded a UFO when he disappeared in 1934.

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Y7MjB TIL The 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption is the largest atmospheric explosion recorded by modern instrumentation and the most powerful eruption since the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
m1pDx TIL there's a competition in Alaska called Fat Bear Week, where people vote for the fattest bears that are preparing to hibernate.
PYkGL TIL Humans have not set foot on the moon since 11 December 1972, almost 50 years.
6XlY TIL Joel McHale of ‘Community’ fame won a Rose Bowl ring in 1991
4bj5 TIL about the 1918 public lynching of Mary Turner. Turner (8 months pregnant) was hung upside down and set on fire. While still alive, her abdomen was cut open, causing her child to fall to the ground where she watched the lynch mob stomp him to death.