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TIL that the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), once the largest anti-cult support hotline, is now owned by the church of scientology.

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gr5gy TIL the first established patent system was the Venetian Patent Statute of 1474, being the earliest codified patent system in the world, with its principles still being the basic foundation of modern patent law
j6EX TIL that in 2003, a glitch was found in Pokemon R/B/Y which allows you to catch Mew (or even the other starters)
6E9ll if the Sun were 'shut off', Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 27 °C / 81 °F. This means in two months the temperature would drop to -123 °C / -190 °F, and -189 °C / -324 °F in four months. So basically except some bacteria seem to be capable of surviving at extremely cold temperatures in space, we humans would die pretty quickly.
ZrOo TIL that in 1971, the U.S. left a memorial on the Moon for every astronaut who died in the pursuit of space exploration, including Russian Cosmonauts
wLG4E TIL John Wilkes Booth's (Lincoln's Assassin) plan was a simultaneous coordinated strike to kill the President, Vice President, & Secretary of State, causing succession chaos. Lincoln was killed, the Secretary of State severely injured, but the conspirator assigned to the Vice President chickened out