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TIL Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard ordered the murders of the four defectors who leaked the church’s upper-level classified scriptures. He once fired blanks into the audience at one of his lectures to demonstrate how his church “audits” its critics.

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69LNQ TIL that California is the only state to have an image of an extinct animal on its state flag and seal
gNxD TIL of the Asian brown cloud, a layer of air pollution that appears over South Asia and the Indian Ocean every year between January and March when there is no rain to wash pollutants from the air. Nearly two million people die each year, in India alone, from conditions related to the brown cloud.
yQYVw TIL: In 1884, before there were ambulances for people in San Francisco, there was an ambulance for horses. It came to the aid of six in its first month of service.
awLZM TIL A man complained of symptoms and admitted to taking VitD supplement purported to contain 1600 IU. Analysis revealed that each capsule contained a significantly higher amount (186,400 IU). An error in labeling made the patient consume 10 capsules p/d thus consuming 1,864,000 IU daily for 2 months
xNBo TIL that an Australian man jumped on top of a floating whale carcass surrounded by sharks (including a great white and several tiger sharks). He later admitted, “Mum thinks I’m an idiot, Dad’s not too proud either.” (Video in link.)