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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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69Pbm TIL they actually made Lebowski spin-off movie called "The Jesus Rolls" featuring Susan Sarandon, Jon Hamm, Christopher Walken, and Pete Davidson.
eMa4 TIL the parents of the “Charlie Bit Me” video have admitted the only reason they uploaded the video to YouTube was because the size of the video file was too big to be send by email to their family.
p8l4A TIL Cowboys didn’t actually wear Cowboy hats, but rather wore derby or bowler hats. The iconic Stetson style was not popular until the end of the 19th century and by then the Cowboy era was ending.
5RQP TIL of Dewey Bozella, a Boston native who was imprisoned for 26 years for a murder he did not commit. In those 26 years, 2 felons put the murder on him, was denied parole several times, the evidence against him was destroyed by police, and evidence proving his innocence was never brought to trial.
WORA TIL President James K. Polk is nicknamed by some historians “the least known consequential president.” He promised to serve just one term, and he achieved ALL of the agenda he set at the beginning of his term.