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TIL Mormons teach that the Constitution is divinely inspired.

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0wwPp TIL that the papal election of 1268 lasted 3 years and eventually the roof of the building they were locked in was removed to speed up the election. The election lasted so long that 3 cardinal electors died and 1 resigned during it.
69Pn8 Til that Thailand bans the sale of alcohol on election days.
jw6R TIL Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first to suggest that space and time were one.
P1E0e TIL about London's "Frost Fairs" back when the river Thames used to freeze over about once a decade. People would set up shops, pubs and ice skating rinks on a layer of ice thick enough you could walk an elephant on it. The last fair was held in 1814, that was the last time the river ever froze.
d1Pj TIL Lt. General Sir Carton de Wiart was shot in the face, head, stomach, ear; survived 2 plane crashes; tunneled out a POW camp; tore off his fingers when a doctor refused to amputate; reportedly removed his eye b/c it kept him from aiming his gun; and threw his glass eye out of a taxi.