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

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LQQWZ TIL that Stede Bonnet (of "Our Flag Means Death" fame) was an actual person who worked with Blackbeard.
axaA TIL of a magician with the name of Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, who was asked by Louis-Napoleon to suppress a possible rebellion in French-controlled Algeria using his magic tricks and he succeed in doing so.
nXkb TIL the total number of energy used to mine Bitcoins daily is massive, with 982 megawatt hours a day, that’s enough to power roughly 31,000 U.S. homes, or about half a Large Hadron Collider.
d8Xg8 TIL in the year 2000 American Target Shooter Josh Lakatos decided to illegally stay in the Olympic Village and turned an unsupervised building into a playground for sex orgies.
KOWPE TIL about Mike Warnke: An evangelical celebrity claiming to be a former satanist who sacrificed children and engaged in ritual orgies before finding Christ. It was revealed he made the whole story up and was blacklisted from megachurches for not actually sacrificing babies.