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TIL there was a sex cult community called Rajneeshpuram in Oregon back in the 1980s. They had poisoned over 750 people to commit voter fraud and had multiple assassination attempts on the Wasco county officials although none of the assassination succeeded.

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lowkA TIL about the Marvel character Doop, an alien bean who among other things; has fought Thor to a standstill, was ready to murder Wolverine with a broken glass bottle, murdered someone with an axe and had sex with a married woman as well as the private investigator that was hired by the husband.
OowQ7 TIL, a group of zebras can be called a "dazzle" of zebras.
5Y54P TIL that there’s going to be a backup of the backup of the internet located in Canada, to shield data from some possible American legal action.
rRa11 TIL of Jennifer Teege, a half-black woman that didn’t learn until she was 38 that her grandfather had been Amon Göth, the sadistic Nazi concentration camp commandant dramatized in Schindler’s List
a46J TIL that before the dominance of HTML on the web, a protocol called GOPHER existed. Despite its linear navigation, lack of an hyperlink function, not having images, and the current lack of support from the main browsers, gopher:// sites such as Twitpher exist in a parallel, bizarre text driven web.