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TIL David Miscavige’s wife has been missing since 2007. He is the leader of the Church of Scientology.

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lo8gK TIL in Victorian times, ice cream was sold in small quantities called a 'penny lick' wherein a small amount of ice cream was placed onto a licking glass, which the customer would lick clean and return. It was banned due to concerns about spreading TB, as the glass was not washed between customers.
VMX9Z TIL we use the word cancer as a medical diagnosis because Hippocrates thought the tumors looked like crabs
Y7P0d TIL that Nazi Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner was especially harsh on deserters, even putting out an order in 1945 that all soldiers found deserting were to be court-martialled and immediately hung, and that later that year he deserted his own post.
9RA7 TIL YahooMail Is So Bad That Congress Banned It on Capital Hill
d8Gk8 TIL that the record for the most overdue library book is 288 years. The book was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge by Colonel Robert Walpole (England) in 1667–68 and returned in 1956.