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TIL the founder of the Cheesecake Factory was a member of a cult called Sufism Reoriented, and invested millions in building their house of worship.

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nWNdo TIL that safety concerns of the Jules Rimet Trophy during WWII led Ottorino Barassi, who was FIFA vice-president at the time, to remove the trophy from a bank and hide it in a shoebox under his bed. The trophy stayed safe under Barassi’s bed until the World Cup returned after WWII in 1950 in Brazil.
kJP0m TIL the phallic symbol of Makamake, the second largest dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, is because the God of Fertility it was named after has big eyes and nose
Odme TIL There is an emergency hotline in the US where you can call and listen to Hall and Oates songs
we8J TIL that Belarus is the only country where Opera is the most used web browser
R7eBa TIL that Claude Monet developed cataracts and was struggling to paint later in life, until he had the lens of his left eye completely removed. Afterward he could not only see more clearly but was able to see and paint in UV colors.