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TIL Mormons believe God has a wife.

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16OkO TIL that a dead person was elected as MP for the British constituency of Portsmouth in 1747. Four days after they were elected, news arrived that they had died 87 days earlier in the West Indies
xVbg7 TIL that the last person who lived during the 1800s died in 2017 - There is no one left from that century.
ANXno TIL 20th US president, James Garfield, didn't want to be a candidate. When he got his first votes, he challenged it by saying without his consent, he should not be receiving votes, but he was dismissed. After winning the nomination, Garfield looked "pale as death". He was assassinated a year later
W7g1L TIL about Martha Mansfield, a silent film star who died at 24 in 1923 on the set of 'The Warrens of Virginia.' Her Civil War-era costume caught fire after someone threw a used match into the car she was sitting in. The match-thrower has never been identified.
RBa TIL that Danny DeVito produced Pulp Fiction.