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

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r5ad TIL the word “mortgage” comes from French - it means “pledge to the death.”
4Q9N TIL Stalin’s hated his oldest son,Yakov, so much that when he tried and failed to commit suicide by gun Stalin joked “He can’t even shoot straight.” Yakov later died in a German concentration camp, possibly after disobeying a guard. Stalin felt this was an honorable death.
1alGO TIL of Auguste Piccard, a Swiss physicist who invented a balloon and reached a record altitude of 9.8 miles in 1931. He then redesigned the balloon to be used underwater, and reached a record-breaking depth of 10,335ft in 1953.
xVrRB TIL in the entire "Treehouse of Horror" series on "The Simpsons" only the first episode actually takes place in a treehouse
gMjAA TIL blood type distribution varies by country, for example Albania has 10% AB+, Chile has less than 1%, most common blood worldwide is O+ but India's is B+