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TIL that while Scientology and Dianetics bemoan any drug or Alcohol use, L. Ron Hubbard drank a bottle of scotch a day, used amphetamines and was addicted to phenobarbital.

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XKgj TIL of the brain-eating amoeba, which lives in fresh water and kills unsuspecting swimmers every year by entering their bodies through the nose and consuming their brain tissue.
oXR8 TIL of the The Ketchup ‘n’ Fries plant. Also known as the Pomato is the stem of a tomato plant grafted onto the root system of potato plant that can grow both tomatoes and potatoes at the same time.
v1Kr8 TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk in his office, and no one realized he was dead for 2 days.
R7mw4 TIL in 1954 the obninsk nuclear power plant near Moscow was connected to the electrical grid, becoming the world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity industrially.
ZpXKa TIL/ Today I Learned Sonic put a shake I always order from them on the menu whenever I get a shake