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TIL Jason Lee divorced, and cut off all contact with, his first wife after she read an anti-Scientology book

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jNGXv TIL American universities are fearing a massive drop in the number of people going to college by 2025 due to lowering birth rates
698lw TIL that Thomas Paine became a deputy in the French parliament and voted against executing King Louis XVI
OM9X TIL that Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller did a “penny behind the ear trick” for television while having brain surgery. Teller had him remain conscious so that he could see the penny after Teller produced it and say it was the one he marked. The resulting footage was too disturbing to be aired.
NXZOJ TIL of Captain Bligh, who traveled 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) on a 23ft (7.0m) launch with eighteen of his loyal men after mutineers took over his ship, HMS Bounty.
VBd6m TIL of Lord George Gordon, who was a British nobleman and politician in 18th century England, who led a mob of Protestants in a riot against Catholic businesses and property in London. In later life, he gained public attention from his conversion to Judaism and was nicknamed "The Birmingham Moses"