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TIL the woman responsible for the botched “potato Jesus” restoration receives 49% of all of the church’s souvenir sales featuring the image.

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oB0L8 TIL that almost all American drivers describe their driving skills as "above average"
0wN0A TIL that in 2006, a young couple lost for three nights in the San Jacinto mountains was rescued in part by a signal fire started from matches found in the abandoned camp of a lost hiker who vanished exactly one year before their predicament.
xVkg7 TIL two brothers had a grocery chain together. In 1960, one Albrecht brother, didn't want to continue to sell cigarettes in their stores. The other did. They politely parted ways and continued independently. Both expanded to the USA, Karl with Aldi: against cigarettes and Theo opening Trader Joe's.
vP8B4 TIL the first global attempt to boycott a modern Olympics was in 1936 when they were being hosted in far right Nazi-controlled Germany. Anti-fascist people in Barcelona were set to host an alternative called "Olimpíada Popular" but it was cancelled due to a far right power grab in Spain at that time
OoAXg TIL that the shortest performance to ever be nominated for an acting Oscar was just 2 minutes and 19 seconds of screentime, performed by Hermione Baddeley in 'Room at the Top' (1959).