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TIL Charles Manson studied 150 hours of Scientology before deciding the religion was "too crazy" for him.

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Kwjw TIL that Kurt Vonnegut was once employed by Sports Illustrated and tasked with writing a story about a racehorse who jumped over a fence to try to run away. He wrote “The horse jumped over the fucking fence” and left the job.
vEwL TIL In 2006, anti-NATO protests in Ukraine canceled a joint exercise designed to simulate a Russian invasion of Crimea.
VMbJk TIL White torture is the most horrible torture method known
awv8b TIL Nagasaki was not the primary target for ‘Fat Man’. The neighboring city of Kokura was the intended target, but due to unfavorable weather conditions, Nagasaki was bombed instead.
ADV6d TIL that people actually believe that the Nazis went to the coldest and most inaccessible place on the planet to hunt whales just before WW2 because they needed more fat for their population...