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TIL that the Church of Scientology tried to frame an author critical of them for terrorism

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WoWB TIL Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece Starry Night depicts the view outside his sanitarium window, and that he was not impressed with the now beloved work
BgJRW TIL that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, known as a prankster, liked to frighten visitors to his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, by leading them on a raid in his Amphicar, directly into the lake on his property, while shouting that its brakes were malfunctioning.
XE5o8 TIL David Letterman taped a show while flying on a 747 from New York to Miami, even bringing along his desk and band.
Eg6lp TIL human chimerism is a rare occurrence in which a person has 2 sets of DNA. The rarest kind is caused by fraternal twins that fuse together when they are only a clump of cells in size.
e098k TIL: "The Silent Majority" originally meant dead people, as in there's more dead people than living. It was first used in politics in 1919, but didnt become mainstream until used in a book read by Nixon that used "the silent majority" to contrast "the vocal minority."