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TIL - Despite selling over 80 million albums worldwide Enya has yet to undergo a single concert tour.

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l7jDA TIL after the 1838 Mormon War, a clash between Mormons & a unit of the state militia, Missouri Governor signed an executive order calling for Mormons to be "exterminated" or "driven from the state". Although no evidence exists of any Mormons being killed from this order, 15,000 fled to Illinois
gMNbA TIL that in 2013 Detroit was so broke that they were unable to print out death certificates because they had not been able to pay the company that provided the special embossed paper on which they were printed, and subsequently ran out.
dXVj TIL that in late 19th century, Korean women were normally wearing clothes exposing breasts while being quite concealing otherwise (NSFW historical photos and references)
R7gWj TIL in 1971 John List murdered his family to save their souls and arranged their bodies on sleeping bags. He then cleaned up, cut himself out of the family’s photos, turned on a religious radio station, and fled. Only after the lights in the house had burned out one by one did neighbors call police.
KeWa TIL Eight people used Muhammad Ali’s legendary fight as a diversion to break into an FBI office. The stolen documents expose FBI of doing illegal surveillance