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TIL Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart live in the same building and ride to work together.

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691Z TIL that movie theaters have been banned in Saudi Arabia since the 1980s.
bL94 TIL An episode of South Park had to add a disclaimer, “this is what Scientologists actually believe”, after depicting an alien(Xenu) that Scientologists believe in so that people didn’t think it was satire
ADJwo TIL The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson once got an F on an assignment in his high school music class—which eventually turned into “Surfin’”, their first single. The F was changed to an A in 2018.
xVkDg TIL: The shortest war in history was fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar in 1896 and lasted 38 to 45 minutes. At 09.02 British ships started a bombardment of the sultan's palace which ended at 09.40. 500 Zanzibaris were killed, but only one British sailor was injured.
jm7j TIL While 71% of Americans believe in hell, only half of one per cent think that they are likely to end up there