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kk44 TIL The Mormon church uses tax records (and anything else they can) to track down members who move and stop attending. [x-post /r/exmormon]
yQnr8 TIL if you unfurled all of your DNA in your body, it would stretch out at an incredible 10 billion miles. This means that your DNA would reach the sun and back 600 times.
epkLJ TIL the US has the third lowest average commute time in the OECD, with only Finland and Sweden being lower.
78lBp TIL Active Listening is listening with the intent to understand the other person fully rather than listening to respond. However, it was criticized by John Gottman's "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" as being of limited usefulness.
awP8J TIL: The first Hannibal Lecter movie was not The Silence of the Lambs. But a film called Manhunter from 1986. Though they renamed Lecter to Lecktor.