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TIL from 1838-1976 it was legal to kill Mormons in Missouri.
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TIL that there is an organism that exists as a single celled organism when times are good, but under stress gathers together to form a slug, which climbs to a favorable spot and becomes a plant which launches spores which become single cells again.
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TIL that there are commuter trains in Japan with their own zen gardens
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TIL Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas holds the record for most advertisements by one person in history, appearing in over 800 commercials.
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TIL over $200 million in gold and silver bullion was recovered from underneath WTC-4 following the September 11th attacks.
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TIL about Adolph Metzger, a bugler who used his instrument as a weapon until it was battered shapeless in the Fetterman Fight. Metzger was the only soldier whose dead body was not mutilated. Instead the Indians covered him with a buffalo hide. His dented bugle is now displayed in a Wyoming museum.