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TIL that the parents of Oscar Nunez (who played Oscar on the Office) were classmates of Fidel Castro at the University of Havana

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Wk6xX TIL Atheist churches exist and they're styled after Mega Churches in the United States. Located in places like Dublin, Sydney, and New York, they are places for Atheists to replicate the Church experience.
LkNgp TIL of the wreck of the slave ship L'Utile which in 1761 crashed into Tromelin Island near Madagascar, an island without animals or trees. 60 Slaves were left behind. FIFTEEN YEARS later the survivors were rescued – seven women and an eight-month-old child.
woAMY TIL that the Japanese invaded India during WWII
VMDVm TIL that William McBride, an Australian obstetrician who helped determine the link between thalidomide and birth defects, was years later de-registered for falsifying scientific data to claim that another drug also caused birth defects.
R7W46 TIL a near-mint copy of Action Comics No.1 dating from 1938 (the first comic book to feature Superman) now sells for $3.2 million