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TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, is the Guinness World Records holder of most published author with 1,084 works.

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loPvG TIL The Paris Peace talks involving North and South Korea back in 1968 were stalled because neither country could agree on the shape of the negotiating table.
OooLX TIL Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, still is the only woman to hold two Nobel Prizes, and her daughter also won a Nobel Prize.
gMLM4 TIL that Singapore still use caning extensively as a form of punishment in schools, prisons and the government.
QBNd TIL Dominoes discontinued use of their mascot “The Noid” after a mentally ill Kenneth Lamar Noid, thinking the character was based on him, held a Dominoes hostage and later killed himself.
R7pL9 TIL that since 9/11 more than 37,000 first responders and people around ground zero have been diagnosed with cancer and illness, and the number of disease deaths is soon to outnumber the total victims in 2001.