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TIL the Australian Government inadvertently banned Christianity in 1940 when it declared the Adelaide Jehovah's Witnesses to be a subversive association and prohibited all associated doctrines

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x6gVB TIL of the various roles Sean Connery turned down, they included Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, John Hammond in Jurassic Park, Morpheus in The Matrix, Dumbledore in Harry Potter, and Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. Of the Hannibal part in particular, Connery felt it was too "disgusting."
jN1XQ TIL Jungles cover only 6% of the earth but contain over half the species on the planet.
M8Z0 TIL of the “Tocqueville Effect” which states that as social conditions and opportunities improve, social frustration grows more quickly.
1kaD TIL that 30% of American adults use Facebook as their primary source of news
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