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TIL that the actor who played Wong in the Avengers movies is actually named Benedict Wong

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XELYQ TIL that former Scientologist Jim Humble, now leader of a group calling itself Genesis II Church of Health and Healing. Promotes a “miracle cure” that claims to cure 95% of all diseases in the world by making adults and children, including infants, drink industrial bleach.
Y7v8d TIL aphex twin's music was featured in a anti drug commercial
VBK4D TIL in the 1940s and 50s, a vast labyrinth of subterranean tunnels were dug into the frozen permafrost underneath Novy Port in Siberia for cold storage. It's been called the world’s largest natural refrigerator. The tunnels run for more than a kilometer and has some 200 small side tunnels and caves.
0w0mj TIL there are less than 1 million slot machines in the now-US, while there are over 4 million Pachinko machines in Japan.
ZKR4 TIL in 1986 a power plug was developed to standardize European sockets. Brazil adopted this plug to increase compatibility with the European market, in the end they were the only ones to adopt it.