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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

N7gL6 Researchers in Sweden have uncovered evidence of a behaviour never seen before in ancient hunter-gatherers: the mounting of decapitated heads onto stakes. The grim discovery challenges our understanding of European Mesolithic culture and how these early humans handled their dead.
Zv0p TIL that Blue whales are among the loudest animals on the planet, and might hear each other up to 1,000 miles away.
yQK5v TIL of a surgery with a 300% mortality rate. During an amputation, Dr. Robert Liston accidentally cut his assistant's fingers off and later slashed an observer's coat. The observer, thinking he'd been stabbed, dropped dead of shock, and the patient and assistant died afterwards of infected wounds.
woMo TIL Yasunori Mitsuda, the composer for Chrono Trigger, nearly died making the music for the game.
mxL0o TIL about Brandt Kuykendal, a man who created his own ISP after discovering that he could not get reliable and fast internet in his town. He mainly built the ISP because his daughter needed fast internet to excel in school.