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TIL Mormons love Jell-O so much that it is Utah’s official state snack food and the biggest region where Mormons live is called the “Jell-O Belt”

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dDYeB TIL the country of Micronesia consists of 607 islands with a combined area of 271 sq miles of land that sit in 1.2 million sq miles of ocean.
R5ml TIL that there is a boat which sails around to countries with restrictive abortion laws, and offers abortions in international waters.
gMYnW TIL in October 2012, around 25 families showed up to the Nottingham Cineworld theater to watch Madagascar 3. Due to a technical error with the projector, they wound up watching the opening scene of Paranormal Activity 4 instead, causing children as young as 5-years-old to start crying as a result
M7VEB TIL that 'Magikkun', which means “mask fraud”, is a word that South Koreans use to describe people who hide their facial features by wearing masks on dating apps.
m1kgE TIL The Trojan Horse story likely never happened, and was instead a creative misunderstanding of an actual historical use of a siege engine.