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TIL Mormons believe God has a wife.

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R9e6 TIL that they’ve put armed rangers on guard 24/7 to protect the last male northern white rhino left on Earth
b6okE TIL - The Hamilton Pulsar P1 was the first digital watch, launched in 1972 for $2100 (>$12,000 today). Later in the 70's digital watches were around $10, and in the 80's they were given away free in cereal boxes.
J1NKj TIL there is a group called The Unicode Consortium. It's most well known for approving emoji designs. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which keeps code and text standardized across platforms.
JYLml TIL that in 2003 Brandon Vedas live-streamed his own drug overdose & death while people told him to take more on IRC chatroom. One of his last sentences, as he took more, going unconscious and dying, was: "I told u I was hardcore". His mother was in the next room, thinking he was asleep.
xrxb TIL when Iggy Pop was in junior high, to support his musical aspirations, Iggy’s parents moved out of the master bedroom of their trailer because it was the only room big enough to fit his drum kit.