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TIL that in response to South Park satirising Scientology, Scientologists put out a statement on behalf of Isaac Hayes (Who plays the character Chef and is a Scientologist) quitting the show, taking advantage of him being barely functional and unable to talk due to a stroke.

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Z8NBY TIL In 1819, when King Francis visited the Pompeii exhibition there with his wife and daughter, he was so embarrassed by the erotic artwork that he had it locked away in a "secret cabinet", a gallery within the museum accessible only to "people of mature age and respected morals".
8aLK TIL that Japanese people can digest seaweed while for the rest of us it passes right through. (They have an unique symbiosis with a bacteria)
KYGyR TIL that the West Side of Saint Paul, Minnesota is south of downtown. The separate city of West St. Paul (note the spelling) is also south of downtown Saint Paul. East of West St. Paul is the also separate city of South St. Paul. There is also a separate North Saint Paul (note the spelling).
OGYR1 TIL of the Superman memory crystal, a nanostructured glass used for permanently recording digital data. It can store up to 360 terabytes worth of data for billions of years. It is so durable that even at 189 °C (372 °F), its decay time is comparable to the age of the Universe (13.8×10^9 years).
YpBOZ TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who oversaw the dismantling of the USSR, has said that the Chernobyl explosion was “perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.”