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TIL that Cecil B Demille's 1927 Film King of Kings attracted 800 million viewers

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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.
v1p4j TIL Dwayne Johnson studied both criminology and physiology at the University of Miami, earning degrees in both. Known as 'The Rock,' Johnson admitted that he wanted to be in the FBI or CIA. When a professor told him he needed a law degree, he indicated that he needed to "get the fuck out."
69dQ7 TIL Luffas grow on a vine on land! Not in the sea like I thought. It’s also edible before it gets to the scrubby spongy stage. TY to the little luffa farm in SLO. Side note it looks like a big cucumber at first.
78W57 TIL Australia has slightly more land mass than the contiguous United States. Five of the six mainland states are each bigger than Texas. Just Victoria, containing the 2nd largest city Melbourne, is smaller.
xWLw TIL Billionare Warren Buffet resides in a 6000 sqaure-foot home located in Omaha, Nebraska that he purchased in 1958 for $31,500 (roughly $250,000 present-day).