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TIL the German government declines to consider Scientology as a religion.

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6g8 TIL that nearly $1 million of Royalties collected from sales of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, sit unused because no one wants the money.
kOblB TIL that when yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto wanted to have a liver transplant performed in USA in 2001, he donated 100 thousand dollars to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The gangster jumped the queue and got the liver; that year, 186 people in the Los Angeles region died waiting for livers.
pYnV8 TIL the producers of The Terminator (1984) were sued for plagiarism, by the writer of The Outer Limits (1964) due to an episode with a similar story.
ZAAB TIL music sounds better when heard with the left ear, while the right ear is more efficient at deciphering speech.
R70j TIL Australia has the largest population of camels in the world