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TIL that in the town of Zillah, Washington, there is a small church, very appropriately named “The Church of God-Zillah”

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7kJp TIL that 95% of nuclear weapons are owned by the USA and Russia
neeBW TIL that a 100-year-old fruitcake was recently found in Antartica. According to the explorers, the fruitcake was in excellent condition to the pointed that it looked and smelled almost edible.
prXN TIL 6 companies control 90% of American broadcast media (FOX, CNN, NBC, WSJ, ABC, etc.)
BrkQy TIL Zach Galifianakis had a two-week trial run as a writer on “SNL” before being let go. He wrote a sketch with Will Ferrell being the bodyguard of Britney Spears’s belly button that bombed so bad in the writer’s room that Tina Fey put her hand on his shoulder to comfort him.
nWx6P TIL that Chick-fil-A started in 1961, after founder S. Truett Cathy found a fryer that cooked chicken as quickly as a fast food burger. Chick-fil-A licensed the sandwich to 50 restaurants, including Waffle House, until 1967, when the first standalone Chick-fil-A was opened.