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

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4kBMR TIL that there's a condition called Fregoli delusion, where individuals believe that different people they meet are actually the same person in disguise.
4PMR TIL of Rhythm 0, a six-hour work by performance artist Marina Abramović. The audience was invited to do whatever they wished to and/or with the artist, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table for this purpose including a rose, feather, scalpel, metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet.
5VMGR TIL that DJ scratching was invented in 1975 when Grand Wizzard Theodore was playing records loudly, making his mother to enter his room to scold him. This caused him to hold the record still, accidently moving it back and forth and liking the sound it made.
91mQ TIL that Kublai Khan’s mother was Christian - which featured heavily in his open mindedness to other cultures and religions
n6Xr TIL that AdBlock is the most popular Google Chrome extension, with over forty million users, and the most popular Safari extension as well. It averages about twenty-one million users per day through Firefox.