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TIL that Wikipedia has banned Scientologists from editing any articles having to do with Scientology

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Y7gLv TIL that a store called BEST Products had some very interesting and unique architecture for some of their stores in America that were built between 1972 and 1984. (Zoomable photos and descriptions of stores on link)
8alp4 TIL that Salvador Dalí made a cartoon for Disney
p8AmO TIL the Earth may not be flat but the Solar System is. Aftering seeing a graphic of an asteroid's relative distance to Earth I thought, this must be misleading, as we are not on one plane in space. But we basically are, with margins in single digit degrees.
JjOQ TIL The night that Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech, Mos Def went to his house and told him he should leave America. He did.
gMp6D TIL that the first ever manned flight into a hurricane was done in a single engined plane by Joseph Duckworth on a bet in 1943