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TIL About 73 year old Harriet Baker. ~1990, her husband died leaving her their fully paid home. Scientologists learned of the home, told her an audit could cure her of grief, supplied her with a $45,000 mortgage and then took it for her audit

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AbWo TIL in WW2 that Raymond Collishaw, leading pilots who were outnumbered and outgunned, flew their only Hawker Hurricane from base to base and on as many missions as possible to make the Italians believe that they had many. The plan worked as the Italians spread their resources out thinly.
kPpe TIL that a meteorite exploded over the Mediterranean in 1999. Had it occurred a few hours earlier on the same latitude, it would have triggered a nuclear war between India and Pakistan who were fighting the Kargil War at that time.
8YL8 TIL in 1998, Wu Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard witnessed a car crash from the window of his Brooklyn recording studio. He and a friend coordinated onlookers and lifted one of the cars to rescue a four year old girl, whom ODB visited in hospital under a fake name.
LQgQQ TIL of the estimated 900 deaths in the Grand Canyon, the leading cause of death is from airplane and helicopter crashes. 379 air crash deaths altogether. Falling is the #2.
50pR TIL Apple Inc. excused their use of child labor in deadly conditions in Indonesia by claiming the child laborers would be worse off if Apple didn’t hire them, and that not hiring them “would do nothing to improve the situation.”