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TIL a scottish hacker claimed to have hacked into NASA and found them to be airbushing out UFOS of hi-res satellite pics and evidence of an unknown 2nd top secret US military deep space program.

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NEA6 TIL that the “power up mushroom” sound from Super Mario Bros. is essentially the same as the “flagpole” song but condensed into 1 second.
7JDZ TIL The “rib” in the biblical story of Adam and Eve may actually be a mistranslation of a euphemism for the baculum, a bone found in most mammals penises, to explain it’s absence in humans.
oRA9E TIL in the 1876 US election, disputed votes nearly led to a second civil war. Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, but an Electoral Commission awarded the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes. In exchange for a Hayes win, federal troops were withdrawn from the South, ending Reconstruction.
awPPy TIL that New Zealand was founded on May 7, 1856.
O1Gg TIL Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, refused to accept an honorary degree from Yale and refused to allow his picture on the cover of Time, out of respect for AA’s principle of anonymity.