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TIL that David Koresh of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas got the idea for his name from one of his lovers, Lois Roden. She checked out a book from the Waco McLennan County Public Library in the 1980s on Cyrus Teed, an early 1900s cult leader from Southwest Florida who went by the name "Koresh".

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YppP7 TIL the movie "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn" was a satire of movies which are so bad that the director refuses credit and uses the pseudonym "Alan Smithee". The real-life director of the movie was so unhappy with it that he took his name off and it became a real Alan Smithee film.
yVblw TIL the president of Haiti was assassinated in 2021 and the perpetrators are still unknown
690KQ TIL that the lesbian divorce rate is much higher than the divorce rate among men, and in Denmark, it's consistent with data showing that women initiate most heterosexual divorces.
P15Pg TIL that Shirley Temple led an extremely successful life as a diplomat after her childhood acting career. She was present in Czechoslovakia when the Soviets cracked down on them. Later after the fall of the USSR, she was the head of establishing diplomatic relations between the US and Czechoslovakia
E1d9X TIL Rage Against the Machine unsuccessfully sued the State Department for using their song "Killing in the name of" in torture methods at Guantanamo Bay.