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TIL that the restaurant chain "Twin Peaks" is in fact a Breastaurant-style sports bar and not a Alpinist-styled restaurant themed after the 1990's cult classic TV show "Twin Peaks"

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78yBX TIL Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II are honorary Harlem Globetrotters
P116J TIL Dame Judi Dench was in The Chronicles of Riddick, because Vin Diesel wanted to work with her. The writers has to re-create a role to fit her: Aereon, an Elemental alien ambassador. She called filming "tremendous fun", though she "had absolutely no idea what was going on in the plot"
5VxPR TIL some of the first Islamic coins had Zoroastrian fire temples and a Sassanid King of Kings on them
xnbD TIL that Ouija boards work because of the Ideomotor effect, which is when someone moves themselves or an object without consciously knowing it.
6E1EX TIL that the word "mafia" originated from the Sicilian word "mafiusu," which can mean swagger, boldness or bravado. Sicily was once an Islamic emirate and one possible root for this word is the Arabic word "mahyāṣ" (مهياص), meaning aggressive boasting or bragging.