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TIL that Charles Manson declared Scientology was "too crazy!".

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69eP7 TIL that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald may have been sunk by a rogue wave.
oRKdY TIL most of the people who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 were girls/women aged 14-23. In addition, the doors were locked (preventing escape), a common practice of the time to reduce theft and breaks by workers. Many women people jumped out of the 8/9/10th floors
knXm TIL Social Media Has Overtaken Porn As The #1 Online Activity
x6VN0 TIL the first ever transatlantic radio signal was received here in Canada, morse code for the letter “s”
d8MJ7 TIL: After a Monty Python fan found out that a member of the group was a homosexual, she sent them a letter quoting a biblical passage that said homosexual should be stoned to death. To this, Eric Idol replied "We've found out who he was and we've taken him out and had him shot!"