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TIL Police in Clearwater, FL received 161 calls to 911 from the rooms of the Fort Harrison Hotel within a span of 11 months. Each time, Scientology security denied them entry, insisting there was no emergency.

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v1Me4 TIL: Caillou was voiced by a girl and she passed away in a car crash in 2003
80WV TIL that there is a musical piece called ‘As SLow aS Possible’, written to be played literally as slow as possible (while strictly adhering to the score’s temporal proportions). An ongoing performance of the score began in a German church in September 5th 2001 and will end on September 5th, 2640.
J1Qwk TIL in the USA, "medical aid in dying" is legal in eleven jurisdictions: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Maine,New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
4V0X TIL Half the cast of Firefly served as voice actors on Halo 3: ODST
8aNRG TIL Massachusetts banned Christmas for 22 years because people were drinking too much and crossdressing