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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

4X6eX TIL The Albuquerque Isotopes (a minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies) named themselves after an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer finds out the Springfield Isotopes were moving to Albuquerque.
VMRJ8 TIL that armadillos can cross streams or rivers either by inflating their intestines to float or by simply holding their breath and walking across the bottom.
0d4Oj TIL of the existence of the English speech contraction “there’re”.
E1WRd TIL Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad is a play on words, for "It's All Good Man"
gMpy7 TIL Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter was an aspiring mycologist when the prestigious Linnean Society rejected her submitted paper on fungi reproduction because she was a woman. 100 years later (and 54 years after her death), they formally apologized for their sexist treatment of her work