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TIL the New Cult Awareness Network is owned and operated by the Church of Scientology after they sued the original organization out of existence in 1996.

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xVOpB TIL:-Sandeep Singh was born at Shahabad town of Kurukshetra, Haryana state of India.
XvZr TIL of Danny Casolaro… an investigative journalist who was working to uncover a secret group controlling the CIA, White House, etc. Despite telling friends and family that if he is found dead, it wouldn’t be a suicide, he was found dead after meeting with an unknown source.
WklMd TIL: Of the 23 stab wounds Julius Caesar received during his assassination, only one was actually fatal
awjZ0 TIL A couple in Brazil planted 2 million trees over 20 years in order to bring back a rainforest that was destroyed due to deforestation. Now the area has status as a Private Natural Heritage Reserve and is home to 172 types of birds, 33 varieties of mammals, and 15 kinds of reptiles and amphibians.
VDpp TIL of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman. He was so badly disfigured that the only way he could be identified was through his ring. Years later, the woman in question admitted that she fabricated parts of her story.