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TIL that airlines never schedule flights for noon or midnight, instead using 11:59 or 12:01 to prevent confusion.

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Aw8w TIL of The Hole. A facility owned and operated by the Church of Scientology that held executives against their will for months at a time. Abuse and humiliation tactics were used to force confessions from members who were believed to have counter intentions from the church and its leader
R59ja TIL that the opposite of exorcism is adorcism: the practice of inviting positive spirits into places or people.
kJ7A7 TIL about Julia Butterfly Hill, and American environmental activist who lived in a giant redwood tree for 738 days to stop it from being cut down by a logging company
X0M9P TIL: During ww2, the UK invaded and took iceland with only 746 soldiers.
vPZ5B TIL otters have little pockets to keep their favourite rocks in when breaking stuff open