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TIL Episodes Five and Ten of 1960s Doctor Who story The Daleks' Master Plan were long considered missing until they were found in the basement of a Mormon church in Wandsworth. Nobody has found out how they got there.

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0xv1 TIL: On August 13, 1966, in response to John Lennon’s “More popular than Jesus” comment, a radio station in Texas held a burning of Beatles merchandise. The next day, the broadcast tower was struck by lightning, damaging much of their equipment and sending the news director to the hospital.
1aNvW TIL that sea otters have a lose pouch of skin in which they keep their favorite pebble.
dDyRB TIL that, due to the use of a singular word "frog" instead of the plural "frogs", some Jews believe that the Plague of Frogs from Exodus was one giant frog.
x69Pw TIL that the mirrors required for the production of advanced microchips are so flat that if scaled to the size of Germany the highest point will only be a tenth of a millimeter. Because of that the German technologies company "Zeiss" is the only one in the world able to produce these mirrors.
OGZR4 TIL Muhammad is the most popular name in the world, by 2014 it was estimated to have been given to 150 million men and boys.