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TIL The Californian seagull is landlocked Utah's state bird

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b9ppp TIL Black Mormons couldn't become priests until 1978 when their Prophet had an unprecedented revelation that the "time had come" to allow it, after which black people thanked him for his "many hours" begging God to permit it.
VMXDZ TIL of the Boyd-Parker Torture Tree, where two American Revolutionary War soldiers slowly removed their own intestines.
rXo1 TIL that TEL (tetraethyl lead), an octane booster gasoline additive that was killing Standard Oil Refinery workers or rendering them mad in the 1920’s, wasn’t’ banned by the United States until 1986 largely due to business interests.
rNabw TIL that in 1944, Nazi Germany was spending 75% of their GDP on their military.
N7Vk8 TIL in the 1800s, a cult leader gave 600 acres of land to God but the State of Pennsylvania took possession and sold it because the Almighty didn’t pay His taxes.