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TIL the Mormon church spent 1.5 billion dollars on a shopping mall this past year.

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6EAkl TIL the story of the Good Samaritan is not about the importance of helping people in need, but about how the people we despise can turn out to be heroes.
9YrLX TIL FEMA tweeted a 1-800 phone sex talk line when they meant to tweet a 1-888 Hurricane Irma helpline. They soon tweeted the correct one, but some hurricane victims had already dialed in to hear: “Welcome to America’s hottest talk line. Guys, hot ladies are waiting to talk to you."
KOXkJ TIL that between 1998 and 2011, ‘Torn’ by Natalie Imbruglia was played well over 300,500 times on Australian radio, averaging out to around 75 plays per day.
eKeb TIL the “Today I Learned” subreddit is regularly exploited by corporate markers to push their agendas
RXy6 TIL that China’s army holds annual training exercises against a ‘Blue Force’ equipped to resemble a NATO adversary like the United States. The Blue Force nearly always wins; in 2014, only one visiting brigade was able to defeat it at the cost of 50% casualties.