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TIL in 2013, Jeremy Runnells, a 6th generation Mormon, compiled a list of concerns about Joseph Smith’s 34 wives (as young as 14), anachronisms and 1769 KJV errors in the Book of Mormon and various other issues. After initially vowing to respond to the letter, the Church itself never responded.

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k9Dd TIL That Ben Franklin’s quote “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety,” was actually about the legislature’s right to tax the citizenry to pay for, among other things, security measures.
bPaE TIL that when faced with discrimination, Alexandre Dumas, writer of the Three Musketeers and a mulatto, would write: “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
EgyDw TIL Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, warrior, and diplomat created an intertribal confederacy named Prophetstown to secure a nation that would be given the same rights, respect, and freedom as Canada and America. He died fighting during the war of 1812 before his dream nation became a reality.
gMwX9 TIL The Turkey Drop is when a freshman college student comes home for Thanksgiving and is unceremoniously dumped by his high school girlfriend or boyfriend.
W7RpA TIL of Etta Mae Lopez, a California woman who waited outside a jail all day and slapped the first deputy who came out, in order to get sent to prison where she hoped to quit smoking