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TIL The Mormon Church takes in an estimated $7 billion a year from tithing.

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oe6E TIL that NASA is currently attempting to bring the “Monstrous F-1 moon rocket back to life”… and pretty successfully too.
x6oVg TIL somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean are the Disappointment Islands. Named by John Byron in 1765, because he found the natives to be hostile towads him.
Lk6RP TIL Oliver Stone’s original story for Platoon was called Break, based on his own experiences in the Vietnam War and set to music from The Doors. He sent the script to Jim Morrison hoping he would play the lead. Morrison never responded but he did have the script with him when he died in Paris.
Xeyj TIL Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to
DAOD TIL Andy Warhol owned over forty wigs and when a girl snatched off his iconic hair at a book-signing, he noted in his diary, ‘I don’t know what held me back from pushing her over the balcony.’