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TIL Jimmy Carter said if he became president, he would release all government UFO information to the public. Once elected, he decided not to due to "national security concerns"

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9Y1VX TIL "University of Georgia researchers & colleagues from other universities have developed a jelly-like substance that may help catastrophic breaks knit together. Stem cells are the key ingredient in what the scientists call 'bone putty'" aka "Fracture Putty".
Br8xe TIL that during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, there was a truce made between 3 desperate American soldiers and some Germans after a woman had taken them in her cabin for care.
QNLB6 TIL, after the death of 27-year-old physicist Henry Moseley at Gallipoli (WWI, 1915), the British Government placed a ban on other scientists of repute serving in front-line roles. Ernest Rutherford believed that Moseley's work would have earned him the Nobel Prize.
R19a TIL If “Finding Nemo” happened in real life, when Nemo’s mom and siblings were eaten, Nemo’s dad would have developed female organs and formed a breeding pair with Nemo.
oB9WW TIL peanut butter was originally invented as a substitute for people who couldn't eat meat because of how bad their teeth were