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TIL that The church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is legally recognized as a religion in some countries.

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v1gbB TIL in 1883, a Mexican astronomer witnessed hundreds of unidentified objects passing in front of the Sun. Today, they are thought to have been fragments of a massive comet that missed the Earth by just a few hundred kilometers. Had it hit, it likely would've caused an extinction-level event.
904Q TIL that If you could hold your mother’s hand and she could hold her mother’s hand and so on and so forth, all standing in a straight line, the point where we have a common ancestor with chimpanzees would be only 300 miles away.
V0mG TIL A short film was made in 1976 where a man drives 85 mph through Paris while ignoring red lights, driving the wrong way on one-way streets, and driving on the sidewalk to avoid a rubbish truck to get to his date. The director was rumored to be arrested on it’s first screening.
m1vQo TIL that one side effect of oral birth control is that it shrinks the clitoris (which impacts sensitivity as well)
egrD TIL Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development is actually an albino black man. The writers subtly hinted at this, but the plot line never developed due to Fox cutting the seasons short.