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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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VBO8Q TIL “Don’t Mess with Texas” was created as part of a marketing campaign aimed at 16-24 yr old males to stop throwing their trash all over Texas.
EgJ5X TIL that Because English and British generals insisted The French unit that helped librate Paris would be all white, a white french unit had to be shipped in from Morocco, and was supplemented with volunteers from Spain and Portugal. Making it all white but not all French.
DQAQp TIL that in 1920, then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Herbert Hoover (then a businessman who had no official political affiliation) to run for the Democratic Nomination for President and choose Roosevelt to be his running mate.
lP6V TIL on a Planet with 2 Stars Vegetation Would Bloom Black
LkMEd TIL Ninjas didn't actually wear black masks. The black mask associated with ninjas is actually an amalgamation of how a thief dressed in Japan. Ninjas also didn't use shuriken Throwing stars), they were used by Samurai swordsmen.