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TIL the FBI has an entire catalogue of times they witnessed and recorded UFOs.

Read more vault.fbi.gov

via reddit.com

Z8MYY TIL The city of Chattanooga, TN built a publicly funded ISP with speeds of 1000mbps for $70/mo.
OG0K7 TIL of Cockaigne, an imaginary land of plenty in medieval myth, where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand. In Cockaigne, abbots are beaten by their monks, nuns are flipped over to show their bottoms, and the skies rain cheese.
p8OmO TIL that New Coke, introduced in the 80's, was the formula for Diet Coke with real sugar instead of artificial sweetener.
VMQDk TIL K9 "Officer Benny", a 2-year-old rescue Labrador Retriever, is Washington state's first wildlife crime detection dog. He is trained to find illegal shipments such as rhino horn, bear gallbladder, shark fin, firearms, spent casings, and elephant ivory.
Rwmj TIL that a Portuguese Man of War is not actually a jellyfish, but rather a colony of specialized minute individuals called “zooids” that are dependent on one another for survival