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TIL Will Smith supports Scientology even though he is not an active member and has donated $125,000.

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R7QXj TIL that woodpeckers don't get their bills stuck in trees because they can move their top and bottom bill independently thus creating a tiny space between the end of their beak and the wood.
Y80B TIL Eli Lilly, the company behind the SSRI antidepressant Prozac, hid its clinical trials from the FDA that showed patients who took Prozac were 12 times more likely to commit suicide compared to older antidepressants.
woPVo TIL Bill Belichick has on 3 winning seasons in 30 years without Tom Brady 1994, 2008 and 2021
Lk5d TIL Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany) has a PhD in Physical Chemistry (Quantum Chemistry)
gMGP7 TIL Ethanol works as an antiknock agent just as well as tetraethyllead (TEL) when blended in fuel at 20-30%. General Motors decided to go with TEL instead of ethanol because it was patentable and thus profitable. Internal memos showed they knew of TEL alternatives but publicly denied them.