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TIL: Joseph Smith's wife threatened to practice polygamy until a timely and convenient commandment specifically naming her came from God.

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7ZvX TIL Pizza boxes, or any cardboard or paper with grease soaked into it, aren’t usually recycled.
RKAa TIL There is a man who digs up antique denim left in old abandoned silver mines. When a miner got a new pair of work pants, he’d cut up the old ones and use them for lagging around pipes. Collectors pay thousands of dollars for jeans, jackets and even scraps of denim
BrdaK TIL of the "Stormtrooper Effect" to describe how the hero shoots more accurately as he becomes outnumbered or increasingly desperate. Meanwhile villains miss more shots as they outnumber the hero.
1dAd TIL: Cables at the bottom of the ocean Transmit 99% of the world’s data. Sharks have bitten these cables before, meaning that the internet has suffered from literal SHARK ATTACKS.