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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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QA0k TIL That Pope Leo I met with Attila the Hun and convinced him not to invade Rome
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g8mL TIL Andy Kaufman would punish heckling audiences by reading from The Great Gatsby. At one point, he would “give in” and play a record instead, which turned out to be a recording of himself reading from where he left off.
GYaPN TIL of the traditional "Honors of War", where surrendering armies would leave the battlefield with banners waving honorably and their band playing the enemy's anthem. After winning the American Revolution, George Washington famously refused to allow the British to play an American or French song
Vb4Q TIL A woman in a declining, remote village in Japan created hundreds of scarecrows to make her town more lively.