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TIL an 8yo boy wrote to Lego asking how he could get a job with them, then followed their instructions and now, aged 23, is a Lego Designer.

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WrdB TIL that the Church of Scientology is a corporation, and the actual “church” is just an arm of the corporation. They also have another arm called “Golden Era Productions” tasked with producing propaganda and conducting worldwide marketing campaigns for Scientology.
0w1EL TIL That people who engaged in deconstructive meditation practices (vipassana/insight meditation) were 65% more likely to report unpleasant meditation-related experiences when compared to non-deconstructive practices.
R5xoa TIL Arizona State University is the only university in the world to offer a master of science degree in biomimicry (the study of design modeled on nature).
P1a4G TIL there is an egg-shaped dwarf planet called Haumea in our Solar System - its shape its due to incredibly fast rotation and it even has two moons.
aL7o TIL the word “camel” in “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” may be an incorrect translation of the word for rope