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TIL that people can tell Mormons from non-Mormons just by their face.

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MVwV TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay about the universe begining from a “single originating particle” 80 years before the idea of The Big Bang.
NXjB6 TIL that measles is descended from rinderpest, a cattle disease eradicated by humans. A single outbreak in Africa from 1982–1984 destroyed $2 billion dollars in value, while the price of eliminating rinderpest globally was $5 billion.
0w7b5 TIL Wikipeida have tried to adopt a mascot. Suggestions have been a monkey behind a typewriter, an amoeba, Cliff Clavin (from Cheers), The Thinker, an owl, slime mold, termites. The most common mascot is the anime influenced Wikipie-Tan, a Moe personification of the site. She's still unofficial.
ADKV4 TIL Family Video still operates over 500 stores in the US and Canada. They own the real estate where their stores are located and they own all of the media they rent out so they keep all of the profits. This is why they were able to outlast other video rental businesses like Blockbuster.
oNaL TIL that while Japan is 62nd in terms of land size and 10th in terms of population, it has the 3rd largest economy in the world. Not only that, but it has the 2nd lowest homicide rate in the world, and 2nd highest life expectancy.