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TIL that in September of 2010, the United Nations appointed official ambassador to extraterrestrials in they case they would ever make contact with Earth

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W1aL TIL; In 2012, a father was not charged in killing a man who was molesting his 5 year old daughter.
LM10 TIL that when photographer Yousef Karsh took a photo of Winston Churchill, Yousef took the cigar straight from Churchills mouth and took the photo. This was the grumpy result.
BgyPx TIL some chapters of the NAACP boycotted the movie "The Color Purple" in 1985 because they felt it portrayed Black men in a negative light
oBmO8 TIL the raised reflectors in between lanes on the highway also indicate direction. Normally they reflect white or yellow but if they appear red, it’s becasue you are going the wrong way.
X0ooE TIL mathematician Bernhard Riemann Riemann laid the foundations of the mathematics of general relativity. He also refused to publish incomplete work, and after his death, his housekeeper discarded many unfinished papers. Due to this, some deep insights from him may have been lost forever.