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TIL of the Mace Kingsley Ranch, a Scientology Private School where students were forced to do hard labor and the director, Wally Hanks, would punish the students with beatings (he was caught on audio tape). The school shut down in 2002.

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R5884 TIL in 1981, the PGA Tour was renamed to the Tournament Players Association (TPA) Tour as a way to boost its brand and marketing efforts. It was an immediate flop and changed back to the PGA Tour about six months later in 1982.
KYL09 TIL There is a myth that the White Star Line stopped the wages of the Titanic’s crew when it sank on April 15th, which was in line with Board of Trade regulations. They actually paid their staff bonus wages covering what they would have earned had the journey been completed.
Z8NDv TIL the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, where experts will notice all the stupid errors in a news article but still treat the next article as 100% accurate, was invented by the author Michael Crichton who named it after the famous physicist he was talking to at the time to make it sound more scientific.
9Zar TIL of Prophet Muhammad’s Last Sermon where he stated “All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action.”
o8lY TIL there have been 13 instances where nuclear weapons were nearly launched due to accidents and false alarms.