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TIL: Despite Area 51 operating as early as 1955, it was only publicly acknowledged by the CIA in 2013.

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rlG1 TIL When Miley Cyrus was asked which Jay-Z song she was referring to in “Party in the USA”, she replied that she had never actually heard one of his songs.
mxXEY TIL of Joe Arridy, a mentally disabled man who was executed for a murder he didn’t commit. Police also arrested the true killer who was found with the murder weapon & identified by the victim’s sister. Arridy didn’t understand his fate & laughed & smiled entering the gas chamber.
OGD6R TIL about Fet-Mets, the Swedish petrified miner. Found in 1719 in an underwater mine shaft, naturally mummified by Copper Sulfate. His former fiancée identified him as Fet-Mats Israelsson, who had disappeared 42 years earlier. The remains were put on display on and off again until 1930.
XEg5P TIL The Red-lipped Batfish, found around the Galapagos Island, have modified fins that are completely un-fish-like. The fish rests on the sea floor, it can move on its pectoral and pelvic fins as if it was walking
x60rD TIL that a 39 mile-long sausage was created in Romania in 2014