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TIL that the first reported UFO sighting took place in the 15th century BC, in Ancient Egypt.

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16n67 TIL That Jimmy Fallon was in Band of Brothers. As I am currently rewatching band of Brothers after nearly a decade, I stumbled across a scene that had me shivering. At the end of episode 5, Jimmy Fallon appears as a courier that delivers material right before Easy Company enters Bastogne.
mMoE TIL James Brown left over $100 million of his estate to educate poor children in South Carolina. Ten years after his death, not a penny has been spent in that cause, as legal battles have kept his estate in limbo and legal fees have drawn down the value to under $10 million.
e0L94 TIL Thomas Midgley Jr, who helped invent leaded petrol, once poured the lead additive over his hands and inhaled its fumes to prove it was safe. He was later diagnosed with lead poisoning... for the second time.
4kaG6 TIL in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack while in a horse race, but became the only known example of a dead man winning a horse race.
vMDD TIL the pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14 million) that the network president was fired for green-lighting it