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TIL the German government does not recognize Scientology as a religion; rather, it views it as an abusive business masquerading as a religion

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JYldl TIL that Ed King, who played guitar for the California psychedelic band Strawberry Alarm Clock ("Incense and Peppermints") left that band and became guitar/bass player for Lynyrd Skynyrd, including writing the opening riff for "Sweet Home Alabama" and co-wrote several other of their hit songs.
8aPoG TIL - The "Thagomizer", the spiked tail on a stegosaurid dinosaur, didn't have an official name till the cartoonist Gary Larson did a comic about it, named it, and the scientific community just accepted it and started using it too.
yV5jX TIL the amount of excess cheese that U.S. dairy farms produced (as of 2018) would be nearly the size of the U.S. Capitol building.
W7vJ4 TIL 41,459 different species are threatened with extinction
5VLRR TIL that most dinosaurs aren't kosher. Researchers analyzed Jewish rules to find out that a Jewish time traveler would have difficulties finding kosher meat among dinos.