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TIL that Scientology is the fastest shrinking cult in the history of recorded cults

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m1Pry TIL: India is the World Bank’s largest debtor and is almost double that of second place
neQJ9 TIL of Plastic Pyrolysis. A process of heating plastic in the absence of oxygen to create solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels. Literally turning plastic back into oil!
E17Q7 TIL the anti drug program D.A.R.E. made a direct to video movie called "Kindergarten Ninja"
P11aw TIL people used to grind human bones into flour to make 'bone bread'
oeAL TIL that Andre Geim won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.