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TIL that the Mormons own the most farmland in Illinois

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j6O4a TIL that researchers studying people over 100 found they share a unique set of blood metabolites that may predict longevity — and it’s not diet or exercise that matters most, but how your body processes energy.
dBnd TIL the song Fly Me to the Moon became the first music heard on the moon, when Buzz Aldrin played it on a cassette
MeZb7 TIL that despite looking spindly, the earliest Automobiles- like the Model T ford- were very rugged. This was because they were built in a time when paved roads were uncommon and thus the first automobiles were expected to traverse rough country roads and outright offroad conditions.
vw7R TIL a New York man had his home taken from him, his life threatened by a judge and then ended up mysteriously dead from a head injury shortly after compiling the evidence of this…
EZMo TIL that Michaelangelo began dissecting cadavers at age 17 and Johns Hopkins researchers now believe he painted God with an anatomically correct brain stem on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.