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TIL, UFO files released by Ministry of Defence shows that in wartime meeting, Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a ordered a cover-up of reported encounter between a UFO and RAF bombers, that he ordered it be kept secret for at least 50 years to prevent "mass panic"

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Z0Oa TIL the arctic vortex hitting the U.S., and the drought in California are caused by unusually warm water temperatures near the Gulf of Alaska.
ZKYv TIL that in 1944, 4 million Indians died because of an artificial famine created by the British government.
gM0w4 TIL that the last known population of Woolly Mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt
DQwoe TIL Mr. T stopped wearing nearly all of his gold, which was one of his distinguishing features, after assisting with the cleaning following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He stated "I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”
DQdZj TIL about Albert Severin Roche, a distinguished French soldier who was found sleeping during duty and sentenced to death for it. A messenger arrived right before his execution and told the true story: Albert had crawled 10 hours under fire to rescue his captain and then collapsed from exhaustion.