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TIL that in 18th and 19th century Europe, grave robbing became such a pressing issue that elaborate traps were invented by the graveyard workers to kill those who tried to dig up the recently buried corpses.

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ZYLD TIL that Jenna Miscavige Hill, the niece of the Chairman of Scientology, David Miscavige, first learned about the story of Xenu from watching the “Trapped in the Closet” episode of South Park.
Ooxkg TIL a volcano 200 years ago killed at least 10,000 people in Indonesia and coated earth in a climate cooling layer of ash that blocked the sun
e0X0n TIL of John, a teen who was the first person in the UK charged with inciting his own murder. He found his real-life friend Mark in a chatroom and convinced Mark to kill him (John) via a web of fictional characters. Mark stabbed John, convinced the CIA had ordered him to.
R591j TIL ironically, the novel Fahrenheit 451 has been banned, censored, or redacted in several schools since its publication, including at a school in Montgomery County, Texas, in 2006, where the parents where offended by the burning of the Bible. The book was also burned in Apartheid South Africa.
d4Kd TIL that the plane Lyrnyd Skynyrd went down in was earlier rejected by Aerosmiths flight crew because they felt neither the plane nor the crew were up to standards.