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TIL when L. Ron Hubbard showed off Scientology’s first “clear” member (the highest level of achievement with skills that included perfect memory), the woman couldn’t even recall what color tie Hubbard was wearing

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wPbY TIL Nixon deployed 25,000 soldiers to NYC in 1970 to deliver mail after carriers went on strike.
neZBb TIL The grand children of Hermann Göring (commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe and highly ranked Nazi Officer) sterilised themselves to cut the family line.
EgOp TIL that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy in 4 billion years
YPkG TIL the first 1 million dollar budget movie in America (1916) also featured the first full female nudity in a mainstram film. It was a commercial success, but no copies of it exist. It is a lost movie.
aJy9 TIL in 1946 50 beavers were introduced to Tierra del Fuego, the island at the southernmost tip of South America, in hopes of fostering a fur trade. No such fur trade developed, but the beavers now number over 100,000 and are causing irreparable damage to Patagonia’s forests