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TIL that since the making of the documentary “Jesus Camp”, one of the pastors from Kids on Fire announced that due to negative reactions to the camp after the film, the camp which was held once a year for three weeks has been discontinued indefinitely and will be replaced by other events.

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neXYB TIL That a Johnny Cash statue will replace a Confederate figure on Capitol Hill
EgJw0 TIL of Zachary Porter, 20, who got stuck, waste deep, in a mud flat during low tide. He was unable to free himself and drowned when the high tide came in.
KOWK6 TIL William Shatner starred in a Horror movie in 1965 in which he spoke entirely in Esperanto
BDjL TIL the Water Speed Record has an 85% fatality rate in people attempting to break it.
KOMAJ TIL BMW used prisoners from concentration camps like Dachau to build their cars and plane engines during the second world war. By the end of the war, almost 50% of the 50,000-person workforce at BMW consisted of prisoners from concentration camps.