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TIL thst after L. Ron Hubbard died in 1986, the Church of Scientology said he'd left his body behind because it was getting in the way of his work. He'd gone off to another planet to do some scientific research, having "learned how to do it without a body. "

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Z8kdB TIL that mozzarella is generally not sold packaged in a brine in North America
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