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TIL the story of Aladdin has no Arab source, was written by a Frenchman and takes places in a Chinese town and Aladdin is explicitly Chinese.

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R7NL1 TIL that Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, was a paranoid schizophrenic. His wife had him committed to a psychiatric hospital and it was after this time that he wrote out against all psychology and psychiatric practices. This is why the Church of Scientology is adamantly against them
p8J8Z TIL it is theoretically possible to send a paper plane from the ISS to earth, without the planes burning up on reentry. An experiment was scheduled, but unfortunately cancelled.
xVQO0 TIL about a restaurant which gives complementary reptiles with food.
ep6Yk TIL Serbia produces peanut butter-flavored "Cheetos". They are called Smoki by Stark
JYgM1 TIL After the deaths of his brothers JFK and RFK, Ted Kennedy became the sole patriarch to the Kennedy family. On the same day his 12-year-old son was having his cancer-laden leg amputated, Ted had to rush down to lead his niece, RFK’s daughter, down the aisle at her wedding.