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TIL The first Director of the CIA admitted the existence of UFOs

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nDwr TIL The Band “311” chose to use the local police code for indecent exposure as their name after a band member was arrested for streaking
b9yKa TIL Neanderthals are responsible for the earliest known hominid-made structures, which are about 176,500 years old, consisting of 400 pieces of broken stalagmites arranged into 2 rings that are several metres across, deep inside a cave in France.
m1j4E TIL John Rhys-Davies' stunt double in the Lord of the Rings movies, Brett Beattie, got co-credit as Gimli due to playing him in so many scenes but had the credit removed a week later because of “concerns about preserving the illusion that is Gimli"
BgW9e TIL The Norwegian heavy-water saboteurs in 1943 put the whole operation on ice for 2 or 3 minutes to help the man guarding the facility find his misplaced glasses. After they found his glasses, they lit the fuses and the sabotage was a success. All saboteurs got out alive without any shots fired.
mgRY TIL that in South Asia widowed women were once routinely burned alive on their husbands’ funeral pyres. A British general outlawed it, saying “This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them.”