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TIL a farmer in China grows Buddha shaped pears.

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PYwMJ TIL in 1721, the now-Lutheran Danish sent missionaries to Greenland, as it was assumed the medieval Norse settlers must still be Catholic or had reverted to paganism. The Norse had died out in the early 1400s, but the Danes found Inuit there instead
bL94 TIL An episode of South Park had to add a disclaimer, “this is what Scientologists actually believe”, after depicting an alien(Xenu) that Scientologists believe in so that people didn’t think it was satire
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