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TIL the ‘church’ of Scientology has its own prison

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5YO8r TIL in Michael Jackson's music video for 'Beat It' he cast 80 members of the feuding gangs, Bloods and Crips, in an attempt to foster peace between them
b6gJ4 TIL since 1998, officials at the Library of Congress have been looking for the exact books Thomas Jefferson sold to the library which were later lost in a fire in 1851. They’ve located over 4,000 exact replacements with the same publisher, date, and edition as Jefferson's 4,324 original volumes.
GYkWN TIL while filming "Poetic Justice" Janet Jackson refused to kiss Tupac Shakur unless he had an "AIDS test done first." He declined.
epPkn TIL that Mary Lynn Rajskub — who played Chloe O’Brian on 24 — was originally only supposed to do four episodes of the show. “That stretched to six. And then they just kept hiring me.”
aKMM TIL that a tomb was built inside the U.S. Capitol for George Washington’s remains. The tomb is still accessible but not open to the public. He was instead buried at Mount Vernon by the wish of his will.