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TIL The Satanic Temple has an after school Satan Club
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TIL in 1936, notorious murderer Richard Loeb was fatally stabbed while sexually assaulting a prison inmate. The Chicago Daily News then wrote that Loeb, ‘despite his erudition, ended his sentence with a proposition’.
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TIL the first time a top hat was worn in public, it caused a riot. According to reports, people booed, dogs barked, women fainted, and a small boy suffered a broken arm. The man charged with breaching the peace and ordered to pay a £50 fine.
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TIL the term casualty does not necessarily mean that a person has died due to an event.
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TIL that Rob McElhenney of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" originally wanted the entire cast to get fat for a single season. When nobody else agreed, McElhenney decided to do it on his own - gaining 1/3 of his body weight and then losing it again just for a season.
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TIL of the Zoo Hypothesis, which is that aliens know we earthlings are here but are purposely avoiding contact, and which is also a plausible solution to the Fermi Paradox ("Where is everybody?" - given the number of places in the universe that are estimated to be life-friendly)