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TIL that the Church of Scientology has a compound in CA called Gold Base that is guarded by snipers and armed gate guards. It houses a prison that practices torture, and a paramilitary training school.

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neDLo TIL that even though actor Fred Gwynne considered Herman Munster one of his favorite roles, the costume (including 40 lbs of foam padding and boots with inflexible soles) caused him severe back pain and made him lose 10 lbs in one month via perspiration.
r0RW TIL in response to rising chlamydia rates in Norway, a sex education charity hired a 19-yo student to wear a giant penis costume and squirt people with golden confetti - “If I can do a good thing for others, just by being a dick, there is nothing better…”
91QM TIL that the Romans substituted real criminals into plays for punishment, so if a character died in the play’s story or plot, a real criminal would die on stage.
GYMlN TIL one of the weirdest experiments Isaac Newton did was to stick a bodkin (a long sewing needle) into his eye socket to probe the nature of color and experience other visual phenomena
vnMx TIL Kim Jong Un was caught with a bondage pornography magazine when he was in school in Switzerland.