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TIL The Oldest Surviving Mosque in the USA is in Cedar Rapids Iowa

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PYPbZ TIL about Erwin Rommel's funeral. When the famous general and war hero was implicated in an assassination plot against Hitler, the Nazis let him commit suicide, in return for his family's safety. Rommel agreed, but demanded an apolitical funeral. The Nazis festooned his coffin was swastikas anyway.
lQB TIL 10% of people have a mutation that triples their frontal cortex dopamine and makes them feel twice as much pleasure.
j6xXM TIL Violette Morris, a decorated athlete was banned from athletic due to her sexual preference.
ADRYn TIL the last major US presidential candidate to wear a beard was Charles Evans Hughes, who was defeated in the 1916 presidential election.
D1eGj TIL that The Hulk was inspired by a woman. Jack Kirby created the character after watching a woman lift a car off of her child, who was trapped underneath.