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TIL that Missouri executive order 44, which required Mormons to be "exterminated or driven from the state", was only repealed in 1976

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R7Bk6 TIL that "Into the West" performed by Annie Lennox and used in The Lord of the Rings was inspired by Cameron Duncan, a young film director, who died in late 2003 at the age of 17.
mxPMy TIL that eating a large amount of cashews (or whole nuts) makes you shit orange oil droplets.
M7OyB TIL the UK equivalent of the dollar store is called "Poundland".
R5vxw TIL that the oldest known living land animal is Jonathan, a tortoise estimated to have hatched no later than 1832.
R4y6 TIL there are over two million saunas in Finland and 5 million inhabitants, making an average of one sauna per household