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TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.

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OG64 TIL that there is a website that tells people the best time they should go and pee when watching a movie in cinema so they don’t miss any important scene.
J16rm TIL the Death Camas plant is so toxic that there is only one known pollinator. The plant is visited by a specialist mining bee, which can tolerate its toxins - others are fatally poisoned. One plant species name is Toxicoscordion venenosum var. venenosum ≈ toxic bulb poisonous poisonous.
6EZ7X TIL The cliché "It was a dark and stormy night" originally opened a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, about a highwayman sentenced to death by a judge who turns out to be his father. Bulwer-Lytton infamously convinced Dickens to change "Great Expectations" to give it a more conventional "happy" ending.
GaLQ TIL: Tank crews don’t sleep under their tanks, as there is a story about a tank sinking in mud and crushing people.
GYN8G TIL that butter sticks are differently shaped and packaged differently depending on whether you live east or west of the Rocky Mountains.