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TIL Osama Bin Laden visited Indiana and Los Angeles in the late 1970s

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bL94 TIL An episode of South Park had to add a disclaimer, “this is what Scientologists actually believe”, after depicting an alien(Xenu) that Scientologists believe in so that people didn’t think it was satire
Eggjo TIL Astronomers measure sunspot areas using a square grid by placing the grid over the photo of a sunspot and count the number of squares covering it. Areas can also be determined using graphical charts and software
697PX TIL In 1838, the governor of Missouri issued Executive Order 44, which ordered “Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state.” The order wasn’t rescinded until 1976.
neB77 TIL a Stormtrooper smacks his head in Star Wars: A New Hope and George Lucas kept it in the movie.
RLj1 TIL that America’s longest married couple (John Betar, 102 and Ann Betar, 98) have been married for almost 82 years now and have 16 great granchildren