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TIL Stephen King's father left his family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes".

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noeb TIL Steven Spielberg and John Landis were charged with involuntary manslaughter following the deaths of three actors on the set of The Twilight Zone movie.
Xl9R TIL of The Hole: a facility operated by the Church of Scientology in California. The Tampa Bay Times described it as “a place of confinement and humiliation where Scientology’s management culture…grew extreme.” It has been described by ex-members comparable to that of a North Korean death camp.
wowa7 TIL most chewing gum is made out of plastic
pv0A TIL that there’s a bush which emits a flammable, oily substance which can be lit on fire, without burning the bush itself.
pYRxe TIL Gorillaz' 'Clint Eastwood' isn’t an original riff and drum beat. It’s a preset called ‘Rock One’ on the Suzuki Omnichord autoharp