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TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all of their ink cartridges

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neoob TIL: In the UK if you have an STD when you get married the marriage is legally "voidable" and can be annulled
R5Bg8 TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.
ZyvD TIL that “Breaking Bad” writer and director Vince Gilligan became a professional writer after submitting a fan script to “The X-Files” for its 2nd season. It became an episode and he went on to be a regular writer and producer on the X-Files.
lonLA TIL A man in India, Dashrath Manjhi carved a mountain for 22 yrs using a chisel and hammer and shortened the distance from 55km to 15km after his wife died in on the way to doctor !
8KWX TIL that there are 20 planets with a rating of 80+ habitat conditions, meaning that we can colonize said planets.