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TIL that the Mormons own the most farmland in Illinois

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mxKP TIL Blockbuster declined several offers to buy Netflix for $50 million. Netflix is now worth $2 billion.
OG156 TIL in 1963, Indian-American actor Sabu Dastagir, the star of 1940 film "The Thief of Bagdad", died age 39 of a sudden heart attack. Just three days before his death, he had a routine medical check, where his doctor told him, "If all my patients were as healthy as you, I'd be out of a job.".
wopp6 TIL that "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" got its English title from a transcriptionist nearly 200 years after it was written, and is not a translation of the hymn it originally used
9w0D6 TIL Joseph Smith once ran for president, and would've been the first assassinated unelected candidate if his run was taken seriously
GYM6g TIL: The Apollo Rocket was mostly handmade.