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TIL: Hilter sent a secret expedition to Antarctica for Whale fat to make margarine as part of the “German Fat Plan”

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awbRA TIL about R2-45, a practice in Scientology where a person achieves exteriorization by being shot in the head with a .45 pistol. Exteriorization is defined as the separation of the thetan (soul) and the physical body.
R7b9l TIL Alaina Mathers, Eminem's adopted daughter, whom he calls "Lainey" in many of his songs, is actually the biological daughter of his ex-wife Kim's twin sister, who died in 2016 of an heroin overdose. Eminem received legal custody of her daughter in the early 2000's.
yQQmM Yes, but they never lose that slender figure.
4p4a TIL popcorn has been eaten for almost 7,000 years and is one of the oldest snacks in history
yRxe TIL The tea-bag was an accidental invention. This occurred in 1908 when tea merchant Thomas Sullivan distributed his tea samples in small, silken bags. His customers, not understanding that these were samples, dunked them and suddenly Sullivan was swamped with orders for his ‘tea bags’!