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

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mwbR TIL The world will run out of Helium possibly within 25-30yrs, which would be disastrous to the Medical Industry just to start.
8eLbG TIL Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and Skylanders developer is reportedly making a game with former owner Xbox shortly after going indie
Z8Ywa TIL In 1986, 3 volunteers dove into radioactive water to prevent a second explosion at Chernobyl that could have spread fallout across half of Europe. The members of the "suicide squad" were Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and, Boris Baranov. Ananenko and Bezpalov are still alive today.
gM7KL TIL Apollo 13 was shot in “a hollowed-out, windowless, padded Boeing 707 jet that climbs to 30,000 ft. and then arcs into a steep dive, creating a 23-second period of weightlessness.” This plane is used by NASA for 0g training.
OoJXX TIL that California is named after a fictional island from a Spanish Chivalry novel, written in 1510 and supposedly located in the Indies.