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TIL Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard along with NASA Scientist Jack Parsons went to the desert with the purpose of creating a Human Body for an entity called Babalon. This is known in history books as The Babalon Working.

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ANN54 TIL that most Native Americans died because of Eurasian Germs like Smallpox, not because of European military success in the New World
VmBQ TIL There was only one victim to survive the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre when he arrived at the hospital. When asked by police who shot him 22 times, he said “Nobody shot me.”
d8ELd TIL Muhammad Ali’s daughter, Maryum Ali was a support worker for 15 years working in high crime neighbourhoods. She was on the TV show ’60 Days In’ and spent 2 months as an undercover inmate. She also wrote a children's picture book called 'I Shook Up The World: The Incredible Life of Muhammad Ali.'
e07N4 TIL that 50 years ago a white woman (Petula Clark) touched a black man's (Harry Belafonte) arm on American TV and it caused a national commotion
J1pbj TIL when a peanut plant is pollinated, the flower loses its petals. The bare flower bud hangs from the stem and grows down toward the ground until it penetrates the soil. Once it reaches the appropriate depth, it becomes a peanut