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TIL Scientology has a child labor camp in the heart of Suburban Australia, where children are separated from their parents, and forced to work full time for no pay.

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eZO5 TIL that there is a cure for Hepatitis C that costs $1,125 per pill.
8aEpK TIL that switching from leaded to unleaded fuel in the 1970’s has been linked to a 56% decrease in violent crime during the 1990’s.
XExPD TIL about the boxer crab (Lybia tessellata), which carries poisonous sea anemones around in its claws as deadly weapons to punch its prey with.
kOLNE TIL Stan Lee and Jack Kirby intended the Hulk to be gray. But the printing press kept having trouble with the Hulk's color and he kept coming out green. So he only spent the first few issues of his comic being gray.
Eg1gW TIL blood type "O" is the primary blood type among the indigenous populations of the Americas, in-particular within Central and South America populations with a frequency of nearly 100%