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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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l7eXr TIL that a high school has its own train station. Only four trains a day stop at Caltrain's College Park station in San Jose, California, near Bellarmine Prep school. Caltrain would like to close the station, but students and parents say that it is very busy during the stops.
vrNB TIL that in Hong Kong, architects often design buildings with holes in them to allow dragons to pass through unobstructed on their journey to the ocean.
WkPL9 TIL the original name of Uranus was George
6e78 TIL former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle drilled a hole in the front of his safety helmet and installed cigarette lighters in his race cars in the 80’s and 90’s so that he could smoke while racing. NASCAR permitted it during caution periods of races.
WmJX TIL that Tom Lehrer, a musician known for biting satire stopped performing because “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.”