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TIL in 2007, a 75 year old woman smashed up a Comcast office with a hammer because she was fed up with their poor customer service.

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Xl9R TIL of The Hole: a facility operated by the Church of Scientology in California. The Tampa Bay Times described it as “a place of confinement and humiliation where Scientology’s management culture…grew extreme.” It has been described by ex-members comparable to that of a North Korean death camp.
0wrn5 TIL the CIA had a mind control program. In 2018, declassified documents included a letter discussing work on six dogs made to run, turn and stop via remote control and brain implants.
6prQ TIL Isaac Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification. He is the 17th most-translated author, just behind Arthur Conan Doyle and ahead of Pope John Paul II
VMgGB TIL that one popular account of the origin of the phrase "Milky Way" arises from the Ancient Greek myth of Hera (wife of Zeus) breastfeeding Heracles (AKA Hercules). Hercules fed so strongly Hera recoiled, spraying milk from her breast. Creating the Milky Way.
9Y0dB TIL of a "pineberry", a white hybrid of the strawberry. It looks just like one, but has the taste of a pineapple. It had been "rescued" by Dutch farmers, and later on, commercially sold in the 2010's. At the moment, they're grown (only) in Japan. They're ~$10.00 per berry.