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TIL that Monty Python’s Life of Brian was marketed in Sweden as “so funny it was banned in Norway.”

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lJ4G TIL that Scientology has its own prison, named “The Hole”, where Scientology executives are sent for months or even years of confinement, manual labour and humiliation.
oBpOo TIL that the instructions on how to use the US M79 Rocket Launcher was to “aim towards the enemy”
e0nXb TIL That the human brain takes 1/10th of a second to interpret incoming information. Because of this we are technically always living in the past and that our brains have to predict what is going to happen in the next 1/10th of a second so we can react accordingly.
N8Je TIL that the second flag of the Confederate States of America was, in the words of its creator W.T. Thompson, a symbol of the “supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race”.
x9W5 TIL there’s a tribe in the Amazonas state in Brazil that do not engage in linear thinking and have no words for colors or numbers.