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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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N7vjM TIL: How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
RkKj TIL in 1251 the king kept a polar bear in the Tower of London, which “attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames”
JYlV8 TIL that Beach Boys lead songwriter and musical icon Brian Wilson made a hip-hop song
aeQA TIL a Georgia Tech student was accidentally sent 2 enrollment forms, he filled out both, creating a fictional man named George P. Burdell. The student did work for George and George graduated with a mechanical engineering degree.
0XKy TIL Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo, sold Bebo to AOL for $850 million in 2008 only to later buy it back for only $1 million in 2013.