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TIL scientologists believe that psychiatrists (psychs) are actually beings from the planet Farsec sent to earth to “keep humanity ignorant.”

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WkLod TIL about Guy Tyler, who made hundreds of audio recordings of Native American languages. They provide an archive of languages in danger of being lost to erasure of native culture, as well as helped protect the sacred site at Ward Valley from becoming a nuclear waste dump [link to audio in comments].
9YYQr TIL that serial killer Edmund Kemper has a reported IQ of 145
awvDJ TIL: That in 1959 a Russian zoologist named Dmitri Belyaev started a investigation into domestication (using Foxes) that is basically ongoing to this day.
Br4ZK TIL A restaurant in Bangkok has been constantly cooking and serving from the same soup for 45 years, a form of "perpetual stew"
p8jQQ TIL about absorption cooling: freeze things by burning stuff (or using residual heat from other processes, such as water heating). Patented back in 1859-1860, with the first commercial application in 1925, this process is still used today in gas powered refrigerators, typically found in RVs.