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TIL The Author of the study that first claimed vaccines cause autism had his medical license stripped after the findings were redacted due to an elaborate fraud.

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dDMRK TIL virtually all communion wafers distributed in churches in the USA are made by one for-profit company
poQe TIL that the funny way people talked in films between the 1920’s - 1950’s is actually called the “Mid-Atlantic accent” and was essentially invented to distinguish elites
a8LA TIL that during the filming of The Shawshank Redemption, the American Humane Association monitored all of the scenes involving Brooks’ crow; during the scene when Brooks fed it a maggot, the AHA objected that it was cruel to use a live maggot and required that they use one that was already dead.
vPjgR TIL Tomoaki Hamatsu participated in the show "Susunu! Denpa Shōnen" where he was locked up for 335 days, he had to survive by winning things in the lottery and at the same time he started in a practically empty room and naked
d8r17 TIL that the Yakuza is the second largest criminal organization in the world (by revenue), despite Japan being ranked 11th in worldwide population.