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TIL the ‘church’ of Scientology has its own prison

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g517 TIL of the Peter Principle; anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. Applied to a workplace, this means “every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence”.
aMoM TIL that it LOTR, the scene where Viggo Mortensen kicks the helmet near a pile of orcs, he actually screams so hard because he broke two toes. They actually used the footage in the movie.
geGX TIL the American Army during WWI employed champion Skeet Shooters to protect the trenches by shooting enemy grenades out of midair and deflecting them
eg5k TIL that five mental disorders (autism, ADHD, bipolar DO, major depression, schizophrenia) have been found to overlap, and all share genetic roots
dDPd8 TIL there were “Oyster Wars” in Chesapeake Bay in the 1880’s, and a mother and her two daughters—a trio of “plucky petticoated pirates” aboard The Dancing Molly—once defeated Virginia Governor William Evelyn Cameron, who had personally gone after dredgers.