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TIL in preparation for their proposed invasion of Britain, the Nazis produced a handbook identifying dangerous anti-Nazi institutions in Britain, including Masonic lodges, the Church of England, and the Boy Scouts

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aLr0 TIL that in the past 15 years China has tortured 3700 Falun Gong practitioners to death, and from 2000-08, killed another 64,000 for their organs.
DQPep TIL Adam West's role in Family Guy was inspired by his guest appearance in an episode of Johnny Bravo written by Seth MacFarlane.
E1oNV TIL: In the late 1970s, directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog collaborated on an Ed Gein documentary, but their project fell through.
pY5Pp TIL that a fake software company duped over 200K people with fake university degrees in a elaborate scheme employing 2000 people
XE1JP TIL in 2011 Nicolas Cage woke up in his Orange County house in the middle of the night to find a naked man, wearing Cage’s leather jacket, and eating a Fudgesicle in front of his bed. The man was arrested by police, but Cage didn’t press charges.