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TIL On average, more than 6000 cell phones are lost in Walt Disney World every year.

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EQnw TIL that according to Scientology, Xenu is the dictator of the “Galactic Confederacy” who, 75 million years ago, brought humans to Earth in a DC-8 like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs. The survivors of this attack formed humanity as we know it today.
OGN7 TIL that a reliable way of detecting art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 as these isotopes did not exist in nature prior to the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945.
4kOV5 TIL that the official bird of Redondo Beach, California, is the Goodyear Blimp
oBV7r TIL that Christopher Booker shows that basically all stories in fiction can be generalized into seven basic plot types. He worked on his book "the Seven Basic Plots" for 34 years before releasing it.
wLZ11 TIL "Simon" in Simon Says is different in other countries. In France it's Jack Says, Chinese is Teacher Says, Norway is The King Commands, and Ireland is O'Grady Says.