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TIL that when Elvis’ girlfriend tried to introduce him to Scientology, he said, “Fuck those people! There’s no way I’ll ever get involved with that son-of-a-bitchin’ group. All they want is my money.”

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ep7RE TIL that the ship's bell of the SS Terra Nova of Robert Falcon Scott's last polar expedition is rung everyday at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge when everyone in the institute is invited for coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon, as is British Tradition.