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TIL The directors of Despicable Me wrote a language, minion-eise, for the Minions

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9Y06 TIL that, to determine once and for all whether waterboarding is torture, Christopher Hitchens had himself waterboarded. His conclusion? Yes. It’s torture.
XEgRQ The U.S. Navy has officially published three videos that show UFOs are genuine, several years after the notorious clips first leaked online and properly ushered in the UFO renaissance. Last year, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.
Gpb7 TIL that in movie credits “&” and “and” mean two different things. If two writers’ names are joined with “&” then they collaborated on the script, but if they’re joined with “and” then they worked on it at different times.
XEdxX TIL That if you were a head of household who was living in Texas on March 2nd, 1836, you got given, for free, 4,605 acres of land. Some restrictions apply.
6E07m TIL Persian leader Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from captivity in Babylon 538 BCE. Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible even refers to him as a messiah and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.