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TIL that Mormons believe that in 1978, God changed his mind about black people.

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b6rb9 TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merged into a hybrid monster.
rAd1 TIL we could probably kill off all the mosquitoes with minimal permanent ecological damage.
VMQrp TIL that in addition to temperature control, spacesuits are white so astronauts are easier to spot against the darkness of space
LkZO0 TIL that only one US president (Franklin D Roosevelt) has ever been inaugurated 4 times. Shortly afterwards, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting presidents to two terms. Roosevelt died 82 days into his final term.
VMjrQ TIL of Alcor Life, A company which freezes human bodies in 500 below 0 temperature chambers so they can be revived in the future. They currently have 1,731 people under Cryo chambers