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TIL Sonny Bono, Jason Lee, and even Charles Manson are/were scientologists, except Manson was the only one to call it “too crazy” and leave the church.

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KnNQ TIL that the dating system “BP” (before present/before physics) starts in 1950, because nuclear weapons testing changed the carbon isotopes in the atmosphere, making dating after that time unreliable.
VMW0B TIL Hitler had a British stalker who was a member of the aristocracy and was conceived in a town called Swastika.
akjZ TIL only 23% of Crimean residents favoured joining Russia when polled in 2013 [PDF]
5Vro9 TIL opium was routinely given to infants from ancient times up until the early 1900's.
bVk7 TIL Microsoft sued a high school student named Mike Rowe after he registered the domain MikeRoweSoft.com. He eventually gave up the domain for an Xbox (among other things). He later sold legal documents from the case on eBay for $1,037 as “a piece of Internet history.”