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TIL as a result of it's war with the US government during the 1970s, the Church of Scientology discovered internal documents from the CIA which proposed a mind-control experiment in which hypnotized subjects would have an uncontrollable impulse to ‘commit a nuisance’ on Groundhog Day in 1961.

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kOKAg TIL mistletoe translates to “poop on a stick.” “Mistletoe," or mistiltan in Old English, derives from the Anglo-Saxon words mistel, meaning "dung," and tan, meaning "twig."
9wlED TIL: In the Palace of Westminster, the UK's parliamentary building, there are nearly 30 different bars. In the 1980s, an estimated 10 per cent of MPs were alcoholics.
dDe6d TIL "keel" was the 1st recorded word in the English language. It was recorded by Gildas in the 6th century referring to the primary ships that the Saxons first arrived in.
wL0eM TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay "Fart Proudly" which suggested scientists develop a drug to render farts "not only inoffensive, but agreeable as Perfumes"
GAR6j TIL: Peanuts are in fact not a nut