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TIL The church of Scientology once tried to take over a city in Florida

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x6r1g TIL A phenomenon called "change blindness": An experiment found that nearly half of people failed to notice when the person they were talking to was replaced with someone else after a brief visual distraction.
jN8EE TIL "Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived" is a popular mnemonic used to remember the fate of the of the six wives of King Henry VIII
VBnwB TIL that proposals for a link between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland were proposed satirically as early as 1799, and seriously from 1886 onwards, but no viable plan for either a bridge or tunnel has ever been put forwards
woEEP TIL: The Shanghai Marriage Market is held at the People's Park on weekends where parents of unmarried children gather and trade their children's information with other parents to find a match. It has existed since 2004 and in 2013 it cost $3.20 for an ad there and marriage brokers charge a $16 fee.
W7j08 TIL Adolf Hitler has a Bacon number of 3, connected by Leni Riefenstahl and Caitlyn Jenner (among other paths) — just one more than Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson.