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TIL wikipedia has banned all users and IP addresses affiliated with the Church of Scientology

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wLDoP TIL Toni Morrison helped fund “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” a play by Ishmael Reed that critiques the white-washing in Hamilton
PQ4L TIL that even decades later the U.S. military is still tracking and arresting deserters from Vietnam.
6EBZ TIL the first McDonald drive-thru was opened near a military base in Arizona “to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.”
rN5Y4 TIL that in 2002 members of a simulated Mars mission in Utah uncovered an actual dinosaur fossil when on a mock spacewalk
oBx1K TIL that Blackbeard, despite being famous as a successful and bloodthirsty pirate, actually got far less money than other pirates of the time, and there is no evidence to suggest that he murdered or harmed his captives, or even forced them to stay with his crew.