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TIL The Church of Satan does not worship or even believe in the existence of Satan

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Y7v9G TIL: SCOTUS decision in 1922 denied Japanese-American Takao Ozawa citizenship ruling that only white "Caucasians" were eligible. The next year, a Sikh man named Bhagat Singh Thind sued arguing that he should be eligible because he is from the Caucasus. He was also denied.
lo51A TIL an American man spent 12 years bulding his own 'castle' in the Nevada Desert from scratch. It features 22 rooms, including 2 kitchens, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and a man cave with home thater. It's now on the market for $699,900, down from $3.2 million.
78ov7 TIL About CRISPR-Cas9’s New Frontier: Rewriting Genetic Memories and sickle cell disease.
nWm9P TIL about the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion, where veterans of The American Civil War met, they were on average 94 years old.
kJoB7 TIL of Emory Andrew Tate Jr, a black American chess Master, once described as “a trailblazer for African-American chess”. He is also the father of Andrew Tate.