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TIL Black Mormons couldn't become priests until 1978 when their Prophet had an unprecedented revelation that the "time had come" to allow it, after which black people thanked him for his "many hours" begging God to permit it.

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DQxAP TIL that in 1944 the US Army and Navy created a simulated assault on Japanese position in the center of the LA Coliseum for 250k spectators as a move to boost war-production morale and productivity
9a46 TIL A Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy died in Toronto trying to prove that the glass in the windows of a 24th floor office was unbreakable by throwing himself against it. It was an act he had done twice before. The windows didn’t break but they popped out of the frame and he plunged to his death.
nXvG TIL that there was a hobbyist photographer who took tens of thousands of pictures in the 50s, mostly in Chicago. She never showed them to anyone or even bothered to develop them and she remained unknown until her death. Now she is considered one of the most important street photographers ever.
R7kal TIL Days before his death Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore and how he came to be like this has remained a mystery. It’s been suggested he may have been a victim of “cooping” in which unwilling participants are drugged and forced to vote for a particular candidate..
kynm TIL there is a genetic disorder which makes the affected person have an uniquely happy personality and an interest in water