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TIL L. Ron Hubbard was asked at a science fiction convention about making money as a SciFi writer and his response was “You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”

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0wvR TIL that the Tenth Amendment (powers not delegated to Federal gov’t are reserved for states or people) is considered to be superfluous and self-evident, with the Supreme Court even ruling that it “added nothing to the Constitution as originally ratified.”
9wvk6 TIL that the hit game "Among Us" violated the Geneva Convention by using the Red Cross symbol on a certain area of the map ingame.
R51K4 TIL people in the 19th century regularly died from eating ice cream due to a lack of food safety standards and contamination. Despite this, it was still a popular dessert
WkOe8 TIL that the 400 richest Americans could literally solve the world’s problems, by distributing their wealth, and still be billionaires once they were finished.
GYjy1 TIL that Hiram Maxim took out ads in the local paper to warn his neighbours in West Norwood on the days he was planning to test-fire his prototype machine gun in the back garden