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TIL that Mormons baptized 380,000 Holocaust victims posthumously, seriously offending a lot of Jewish people.

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KOW6J TIL in 2010, Iran banned mullets, adding it to a list of hairstyles it deemed "decadent Western cuts" and "un-Islamic."
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