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TIL Charles Manson completed 150 hours of Scientology auditing before declaring the religion "too crazy"

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LQO7d TIL that a 1963 Television western series, "The Dakotas" (starring Jack Elam and Chad Everett), was cancelled almost overnight after viewers called in complaining about a scene in the most recent episode where a lawman murdered two outlaws in a church
NXL7e TIL that 2024 is the 200th anniversary of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy. It's older than both the modern Italian state (unified in 1861) and the Cairo Egyptian Museum (established in 1902)
8aLpK TIL that pine trees can produce a soapy foam after a heavy rainfall, due to rain water dissolving chemicals from the tree bark as it flows down the stem of the tree.
M7bPa TIL Mormons believe the Garden of Eden is in Missouri, and that Jesus will resurrect there!
dv5E TIL of the Stacks Project. It is an open-source textbook with ~4700 pages, made by many mathematicians with the intention of collecting all the prerequisite knowledge required to understand an extremely abstract mathematical object known as ‘algebraic stack’.