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TIL when Charles Manson entered prison in 1961 he entered "Scientologist" as his religion

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LQ0B9 TIL the full original name of 3M is Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
dpOB TIL one of Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme victims was a professor that wrote a book on gullibility and scams.
eZ84 TIL that it was once customary for Indian women to be burned alive on their husband’s funeral pyre. A British general outlawed it, saying: This … is your custom… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them"
BrNKr TIL Ted Kaczynski (The UNABOMBER), Ramzi Yousef (The '93 WTC Bomber), and Timothy McVeigh (The Oklahoma City Bomber) all become friends in Federal Supermax prison, and would regularly discuss religion and politics to pass time.
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