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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

oBNeE TIL There are mushrooms thriving on radiation inside the sarcophagus in Chernobyl.
WyY8 TIL that the wrinkling of fingers after long exposure to water is not due to water absorption, but is a nervous system response that can be disabled by nerve damage.
KY8rG TIL about the I-400 class aircraft launching super submarines that the Empire of Japan had en route to the US Forward Operating Base Naval Port Ulithi. Their attack on the Pacific Fleet was only derailed by the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
wLkNo TIL the Wright brothers may not have done what they did if not for a hockey accident that sent Wilbur Wright into a depression, causing him to cancel his plans of going to Yale, and eventually open the bicycle shop with his brother.
OoNm6 TIL: The wealth of a samurai in feudal Japan was measured in terms of koku; one koku, supposed to be the amount of rice it took to feed one man for a year, was equivalent to around 180 liters.