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TIL Charles Manson was a “Theta Clear” level Scientologist

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P4mG TIL Iceland’s slogan “Come Find Yourself” came around after a tourist joined her own search party throughout a weekend. She finally realized they where searching for her and informed authorities she was safe.
YpDad TIL the word dude originated in the 1800s as an insult to men overly concerned with the latest fashion trends.
5VgVk TIL John Wilkes Booth father, Junius Brutus Booth, wrote many letters in fits of drunken anger and madness to President Andrew Jackson threatening assassination.
4X1J TIL that when a pregnant women decomposes, the gases in the body bloat and push the baby out AKA Coffin Birth
R5gDw TIL Tolkien wanted to create what we would nowadays call a transmedia multiverse. "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme. The cycles should be linked and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. Absurd."