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TIL the ‘church’ of Scientology has its own prison

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awy4A TIL that in 1954, in Italy, a soccer match (Fiorentina vs Pistoiese) was suspended because multiple unidentified flying objects were spoted above the stadium and the whole city of Firenze. After a while a white sticky substance started falling from the sky. What happened is still a mistery.
1PK7 TIL there were so many mummified cats excavated in Egypt that 19 tons of them were shipped to England to be used as fertilizer
XExa8 TIL Paul Rudd always shows a clip of Mac and Me (1988) whenever he is on Conan regardless of what movie he is there to actually promote.
9YPQB TIL that the Netherlands is known today as a haven for pedestrians and cyclists, however, in the 1970s, a growing epidemic of traffic deaths led to a national movement called 'Stop the Child Murder.' The results transformed the public spaces and street into some of the safest in the world.
ne81B TIL that the Tetris theme song came from a russian folk song by the name of Коробе́йники