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TIL that the LDS church still officially teaches against interracial marriage, generally.

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894G TIL artist Peter von Tiesenhausen made the top 6 inches of his 800 acre farm a copyrighted work of art to keep oil pipelines out. It costs oil companies $500/h to talk to him
VBV9B TIL an ounce of watermelon seeds has the same protein as one large egg. (Also the equivalent of three ounces of tofu, of half a cup of cooked lentils or edamame.)
oB79L TIL that during a game of backgammon in the year 480, the Byzantine Emperor Zeno had a dice roll that was so unlucky that he had it recorded and we still know of it to this day.
v1XYL TIL that men who had an immediate family member imprisoned during their childhood, are more likely to suffer a heart attack later in life.
VMBgm TIL The Hawkhurst gang were a group of smugglers in England, who by the late 1840s had developed unprecedented power, and were a law unto themselves for over a decade. They boasted they could assemble 500 men in the space of a couple of hours.