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TIL The New Mexico ranch where the 1947 Roswell UFO crash happened opened up to public tours for the first time in 2018. The crash site is not in Roswell but actually by the small town of Corona

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v1LeL TIL in 1976 The Indian Government castrated over 6.2 million poor men in the name of population control.
OrDX TIL the child actor Jackie Coogan, who played alongside Charlie Chaplin in ‘The Kid’ was also one of the highest paid actors. When he turned 21, he found out his mom and step dad had spent most of the money he made. His complaint led to the Coogan law being passed to protect child actors.
7rpMx TIL Jurors at a double-murder trial in 1994 used an Ouija board to contact the victims spirits - who told them the man was guilty. The conviction was later quashed for a re-trial.
jNyJn TIL Iron overload in the human body is also called the ''Celtic curse'' or the ''Irish Illness and Scottish sickness'' due the substantial amount of people of Celtic descent having the disorder.
RM19 TIL that while Pixar was making Toy Story 2, someone accidentally ran a Unix command which deleted the film’s data. It was restored thanks to an animator who kept a copy of the data at home so she could work on the movie while caring for her new baby.