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TIL about Adam-ondi-Ahman, a historic site in Daviess County, Missouri, about five miles south of Jameson. According to the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints it is the site where Adam and Eve lived after being expelled from the Garden of Eden.

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