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TIL That the Lord Xenu parts of Scientology were largely unknown, even to other members of Scientology until the South Park Episode "Trapped in the Closet".

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VMxJk TIL the 12 days of Christmas start on December 25 (rather than leading up to Christmas Day).
16R7V TIL Rockwall, Texas is named for a controversial, rectangular rock wall buried under the city.
kOn75 TIL South African novelist Bessie Head was born of an illegal union between her white mother (who was placed in a mental asylum during her pregnancy) and black father (who then mysteriously disappeared). Her works reveal empathy with children and women treated as “dead things”
brwN TIL during the filming of ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, production designer Ken Adam called up his old boss Stanley Kubrick for advice on how to light the inside of an enormous tanker ship, the villain’s secret lair. Kubrick snuck in on a Sunday morning for four hours to set the lighting up himself.
ybep TIL any US citizen can take possession of an uninhabited island anywhere in the world so long as it contains guano deposits and is not within the jurisdiction of another government.