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TIL scientists have created a language called Lincos designed for communicating with alien civilizations, should the need ever arise.

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8eMnG TIL that Dennis Rodman's has between 26 and 46 siblings on his father's side
b9nQp TIL "In God We Trust" first appeared on US money in 1864 as a political ploy by the North to tell the South that God was on their side during the Civil War.
6yQw TIL Kim Jong-un’s older brother Kim Jong-nam was supposed to be their father’s heir until he tried to sneak out of North Korea to visit Disneyland.
69Mnw TIL of Ripton, Massachusetts, a fictitious town created in 1985 by a professor at UMass-Amherst to protest the Boston-based state government's neglect of rural Western Mass towns. He applied and was approved for grants and funding from the state before the hoax was uncovered.
yJvX TIL Jimi Hendrix was once invited to play with Cream alongside Eric Clapton. In the middle of the show, Clapton walked off stage. He was found in the back shaking angrily and smoking a cigarette. When asked what was wrong, he simply replied, “You never told me he was that fucking good.”