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TIL the author of a best selling evangelical book, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" which promoted "Purity Culture" and condemned pre-marital touching including kissing, disavowed his book, divorced his wife, and renounced Christianity

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KxlG TIL of The Thing - a listening device in a carving of the Great Seal of the United States. A gift from the USSR to the US, it hung in the embassy for 7 years. It contained no electronics and would activate when a radio signal of the correct frequency was transmitted to it.
R5NR8 TIL In 2013 a couple walking their dog in California found 8 coffee cans containing over 1,427 gold coins worth over $10 million. The original source of the hoard is still unknown.
BgVvk TIL that Idaho is a made up word, not derived from the Shoshone language.
R7YNl TIL: The Legend of The Deep Sea Black Carpet
0w67N TIL There is no "Missing Link" in Human Evolution. The term "missing link" has fallen out of favor with biologists because it implies the evolutionary process is a linear phenomenon and that forms originate consecutively in a chain. Instead, the term Last Common Ancestor is preferred.