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TIL the actor who played Crabbe in the Harry Potter series was arrested for looting a drug store with a Molotov cocktail during the 2011 London riots and spent 2 years in prison

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WrdB TIL that the Church of Scientology is a corporation, and the actual “church” is just an arm of the corporation. They also have another arm called “Golden Era Productions” tasked with producing propaganda and conducting worldwide marketing campaigns for Scientology.
wN4J TIL Yale researchers taught monkeys to use money, monkeys came up with prostitution and bank robbery
Wj8Y TIL A man bought a shipping container for $400 and found a $2,000,000 Canadian warship engine inside.
oBBJR TIL The tetragrammaton is the Biblical name of the God of Israel.
l9oA TIL there is a fish that causes hallucinations when eaten. In 2006, two men ingested it at a Mediterranean restaurant and began to experience numerous hallucinogenic effects. These hallucinations were described as frightening, and have occurred minutes after the fish was ingested and lasted 36 hours