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TIL the original Battlestar Galactica incorporated many ideas from Mormon theology.

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BgnED TIL that the "D" in "D-Day" (Normandy) stands for "Day"
5VPQD TIL a 35-year-old Japanese man Ryuta Watanabe has 4 wives and 2 girlfriends, has not worked in over a decade and aims to have the most kids in Japanese history with 54 kids.
nYKW TIL that Germany recycles more than any other nation in the world. 65% of total waste there is recycled.
epjen TIL studies have shown that in over 90% of factitious disorder imposed on another cases (first named Munchausen syndrome by proxy), the abuser is the mother. Fathers not actively involved play a passive role in the abuse by being frequently absent at home & rarely visiting their hospitalized child.
mo1O TIL: For his third election in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt ran on his New-Nationalism philosophy, which he defined: “To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”