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TIL the German equivalent of the FBI considers Scientology a potential threat, alongside Islamism and right- and left-wing extremism.

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QgwX TIL Weird Al Yankovic said he knew he’d made it as a famous musician when he went to a party, saw Paul McCartney and before he could introduce himself to the former Beatle, McCartney recognized him and said, “Hey! It’s Weird Al!”
xVNm5 TIL that there's no proof that only advertising actually works. When tested, online advertising effect without selection effects, are statistically indistinguishable from zero.
LQwrd TIL the American food corporation General Mills had an engineering division that built surveillance balloons that spied on Eastern Bloc countries, and built a deep-sea submersible that surveyed the Titanic wreck and helped recover a hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean Ocean.
gvwb TIL There was a ten foot tall ape called Gigantopithecus that is now thought to be extinct. The fossil record also indicates that they most likely buried their dead, which indicates a cognitive level that only one other ape possesses.
XEEp6 TIL that Berlin Jew Stella Kubler outed between 600 and 3,000 other Berlin Jews during WWII and thus sent them to their deaths. After the war, she converted to Christianity, immigrated to Canada, and ended up committing suicide in 1994.