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TIL the leader of the Church of Scientology’s wife disappeared in 2006 and has yet to be found!

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v1kEK TIL Any PCT filed patents are also valid and enforced in North Korea as it ratified the Paris Convention on July 8, 1980.
vP1d8 TIL 'Ballooning' spiders are able to take off and fly through the air, without wind, by using a single line of web ejected into the air to propel them up the naturally generated electric fields in our atmosphere
LkmpQ TIL: there was a "Penthouse Club" located at the original Walt Disney Studios that was for the studio's top talent as a reward for their hard work and loyalty. On one of the walls hung a mural featuring many topless women that was drawn in house.
DQ5WY TIL that John Denver died piloting a home-built aircraft he was not permitted to fly. Despite having over 2,700 hours of flight experience, the FAA had revoked his flight status for medical reasons for failing to maintain sobriety, though alcohol was not involved in the crash.
78pkr TIL The star Betelgeuse has been recorded since Chinese antiquity, with notes of the star then being yellow, by the time of Ptolemy it was orange, and now red. The star is the tenth brightest in the sky and expected to go supernova in the next 100,000 years.