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TIL of The Hole which is a place of confinement where Scientology executives are held against their will.

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KxNw TIL that Kim Jong-il’s real name was Yuri Irsenovich Kim and that he was born in Russia.
b6r5E TIL: Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth
v1xlj TIL in WW2 an RAF Airman jumped out of his burning plane with no functioning parachute and freefell 18,000 feet. He survived with minor injuries.
rRwP0 TIL that the human eye has a resolution of approximately 576 megapixels. For context a 4K screen has about 8.8 megapixels.
W79mB TIL there was a real life Chef Boy-ar-dee who was the head chef at The Plaza in NYC. He anglicized his name from Boiardi because non-Italians couldn't pronounce it.