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TIL Amish Mafia on Discovery is completely fake (as opposed to just being kinda fake) [snopes]

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QJRee TIL of an Ugandan doomsday cult whose followers surrendered their wealth to the church. After the prophesied date passed many disgruntled followers demanded their money back. The cult leaders responded by massacring over 900 of them. The leaders were never caught.
QJ4D6 TIL of the bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
78MyP TIL: Apple seeds DO NOT yield the same apple it came from... every apple seed yields a completely unique apple. If you want the exact same apple, you have to cut a branch off the existing apple tree and graft in onto another tree.
Z818o TIL the wire frame computer graphic flying scene in Escape From New York was actually made using a 3D model of Manhattan and reflective tape. Computers at the time were not powerful enough to produce this kind of graphics.
DQLNP TIL Bob Dylan has spent nearly nine days of his life singing one particular song. "Like A Rolling Stone" is 6 minutes long and he's played it live 2,075 times