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TIL the Catholic Church is the third largest landholder globally
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TIL of the Great Donor Show, a controversial reality TV show from 2007 where a terminally ill woman intended to donate a kidney to one of 25 participants. The show was staged, with the ultimate motive of increasing the amount of donors, a goal in which it succeeded. The show won an emmy
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TIL Stephen King’s lawyer bought and then crushed the van that severely injured King when it knocked him down. King later said he was disappointed he’d never had the opportunity to destroy it himself with a baseball bat and a pickaxe.
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TIL the band 'Steely Dan' is named after a steam-powered dildo featured in the novel 'Naked Lunch'
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TIL Darth Vader’s name was changed in Italy because Vader sounds like toilet bowel in italian
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TIL the oldest remains to ever be found in North America are those of a teenage girl in Mexico from 13,000 years ago.