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TIL The Church of Satan won’t give membership to convicted felons.

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neLQd TIL that Bessie Coleman was not only the first African-American woman to hold a pilot's licence, but also the first Native American to do so.
xVKvD TIL that the cheapest and cleanest means of transport for scientists in the Antarctica is a tent on a sled powered by a giant Kite
Z8jOp TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.
gVkA TIL that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, helped get two falsely accused men out of prison after solving their previously closed cases.
lop7A TIL Scientists have found that people who abstain from alcohol are also more likely to lack social skills, have higher levels of anxiety and have more mental health issues than those considered heavy drinkers.