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TIL Mormons believe God has a wife.

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VMM1D TIL that researchers who have studied Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, believe there is some correlation to the uncanny valley effect, in which a figure is lifelike enough to be disturbing, but not realistic enough to be pleasant.
woV9E TIL that there have been four (4) different successive "Madison Square Garden" sports arenas in New York City, dating back to 1879; the current iteration of MSG (atop Penn Station) was built in 1968 and is several blocks away from Madison Square.
AN7Dx TIL Sardines are named after the italian island of Sardinia
5VBp8 TIL that on the day he was assassinated at least nine of Kennedy’s Secret Service agents were recovering from an all night bender that ended at 5:00 AM
50YQ TIL during the 1950s, the U.S. military tested nuclear weapons so close to Las Vegas, that you could clearly see the mushroom clouds from downtown Hotels. This became a temporary tourist attraction.