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TIL the physical document that dissolved the Soviet Union is missing

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9Y8Yr TIL the Mormon Church justified slavery, fought against Civil Rights, and excluded black people from the priesthood, due to a belief that “black skin was a curse,” an idea that “was not officially contradicted until 2013.”
m18Vo TIL only humans, orcas and pilot whales undergo menopause.
5jnr TIL Richard Nixon possessed 3,700 hours of taped conversations while he was in the White House. Very few people have listened to more than a few hours of them. The tapes “go a long way toward showing Nixon’s underappreciated geopolitical genius and how he became the victim of his own emotionalism.”
v1A64 TIL that in 2017 a Toronto man pledged to eat a photo of Jason Segel every day until Jason Segel ate a picture of him. During one attempt, he choked on the photo and almost died
4d6b TIL on 1st of June 2001 the heir to the Nepalese throne - Prince Dipendra shot and killed several members of the royal family (while intoxicated) including his parents - the reigning King and Queen. This eventually lead to the abolishment of the Kingdom of Nepal.