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TIL Crosby, Stills and Nash are in the wrong order on the front cover of their first album, causing confusion for generations of fans. By the time they'd decided which order their names should be in, the house in the photo had been demolished and so they couldn't reshoot.

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awy4A TIL that in 1954, in Italy, a soccer match (Fiorentina vs Pistoiese) was suspended because multiple unidentified flying objects were spoted above the stadium and the whole city of Firenze. After a while a white sticky substance started falling from the sky. What happened is still a mistery.
QYgL TIL two different men disappeared in Naples, Florida one year apart. Both were last seen being arrested by the same officer. Neither of them were officially ‘booked’ as the officer told investigators he dropped them both off at gas stations. Their bodies have never been found.
EaY7 TIL the Church of Scientology maintains a building surrounded by razor wire to house church prisoners in their sprawling Californian complex and because of religious exemptions the state has been unable to interfere.
840L TIL The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was heavily damaged after destroying a Japanese aircraft carrier during the first carrier battle in history. After 48 hours of emergency repairs, it ended up helping destroy two more carriers before being sunk, and inadvertently saved the other US carriers.
Br8bx TIL “no two people have identical prints” is a myth that has still never been proven.