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TIL that in 1970 the English Court of Appeal found that Scientology does not engage in religious worship

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Eggmx TIL about cold reading, a technique used by mediums and psychics in which the reader, through strategic questioning, gets the subject to reveal information, and through clever psychology convinces them the information actually came from the reader rather than themselves.
4XNk6 TIL J. K. Rowling wrote a short 800-word prequel to Harry Potter for a charity auction in 2008. 13 authors were asked to write an original work for the auction, and Rowling's piece sold for more than all the other writer's works combined at 25,000 pounds alone.
kOx5B TIL that 10% of the Seychelles' working population are addicted to heroin
1a4j8 TIL that the scientific name for a Brain Freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia
VMklk TIL the Molotov Cocktail was not invented by Russians, but instead by under-supplied Finns who used them as improvised anti-tank weapons against the USSR in the Winter War. The famous Finnish alcoholic beverage company ALKO actually switched to mass producing Molotov Cocktails during the war.