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TIL I learned the church of scientology had a troubled teen program like the turn about ranch

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lv5A TIL “lb” is descended from the Roman libra (hence the abbreviation “lb”); the name pound is a Germanic adaptation of the Latin phrase libra pondo, ‘a pound by weight’. And that’s why “pound” is abbreviated as “lb”.
ANPwa TIL: The 255th episode of MASH featured a time capsule buried by the characters filled with memories of the Korean War. The time capsule was real - filled with props. The property was sold and a construction worker found the time capsule and took it home. He got permission to keep it from Alan Alda.
VMXbm TIL that mid-level managers rather than those at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy, suffered the most from depression
xjl0 TIL The US Federal Reserve is privately owned