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TIL The Cult Awareness Network (CAN), once a leading anti-cult hotline, is now owned by the Church of Scientology.

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p8bDG TIL: The United States Postal Service is older than the U.S. itself and Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster General
R71al TIL that a Latvian man evaded the Soviets in bunkers in the woods for the entirety of the 50 year Soviet occupation. He came put when the last Soviet troops left, age 70.
KOd5R TIL that the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre have been held by one and the same Muslim family since 1517. This is a way of maintaining a neutral guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, since the church is split between multiple Christian denominations.
ADmda TIL that the first Architect of the Capitol tried to reanimate George Washington’s corpse by freezing him in cold water and transfusing his blood with that of a lamb.
N7GW8 TIL that China’s parliament has about 100 billionaires