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TIL That in Australia Jedi Faith Masters outnumber Scientologists 30:1

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QNRyd TIL during the Irish Famine (1845-1849), under the ruling British Government, huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation.
9AkQ TIL the scene in Skyfall where Daniel Craig is shaved with a classical razor lead to a 400% increase of straight edge razor sales
bvX9 TIL In the Bulgarian Balkan is an abandoned socialist monument that looks like a UFO.
PRmO TIL in the 1980s that a powerful ring of MPs and ministers were sexually abusing teenage boys in sex parties in Elm Guest House in London. Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens gave a dossier of names of paeodphiles associated with Parliament. It was “lost” by the home secretary, Leon Brittan.
e0444 TIL When Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin left the lunar lander to step onto the moon, one of them broke off the toggle switch that armed the ascent engines. Aldrin jammed a pen into the resulting hole to arm the engines so they could get home.