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TIL Smallville actor Allison Mack was sentenced to 3 years of prison due to her involvement with sex trafficking through the cult NXIVM

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nKZr TIL 70% of Tasmanian devils have died since 1996 due to a contagious facial cancer with a 100% fatality rate
m8Lo TIL that UK hypnotist Derren Brown organised an elaborate prank whereby he convinced one man that he had woken up in a Zombie apocalypse. The ruse, that took months of planning, lasted several days and included 200+ actors.
Vgrm TIL in 2009, a 9yo girl suffered a life-threatening pregnancy as a result of being repeatedly raped by her Step-Father. After the pregnancy was terminated, the performing Doctor and the girl’s mother were excommunicated by the Catholic Church. The Step-Father was not.
X0oQE TIL the same amount of time has passed between the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and the 1930's/1940's movie serial style it is based on is the same as the amount of time between the release of Raiders and 2023. (42 Years).
6OdY TIL There is a Harvard library that houses over 2,500 pigments and with the scientific instruments they use, they were able to prove a Jackson Pollock painting was fake based on the year a certain pigment was discovered.