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TIL The country of Swaziland has banned witches from flying above an altitude of 150 meters in 2013

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nWx7G TIL that Craig Hodges, one of the best NBA players of his generation and an outspoken activist, was blacklisted from the league after wearing a dashiki during a White House visit and giving Bush Sr. a letter criticizing his administration’s treatment of the poor and minorities
ZbG TIL: That in 1991 Spacewatch discovered an artificial body near earth that is now listed on the NASA Astrophysics data system as a possible alien probe that was observed in the vicinity of our planet. It’s orbit will bring it back to the earth in 2016.
pone TIL that flying ants are ants that are mating; they lose their wings soon after.
XEOkr TIL In the early 1960s, The Price Is Right gave away prizes like an airplane, a submarine, a swimming pool, and a house in Florida.
yQRbv TIL after the mistress of famed rocket engineer and occultist Jack Parsons began an affair with science fiction writer and eventual founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, Parsons attempted to conjure a new girlfriend by masturbating onto "magical" tablets.