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TIL that Mormon leaders once publicly taught that handicapped people were “less valiant” spirits than able bodied people.

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WG94 TIL that Los Angeles County in California has a higher population than 43 US states.
Lkpmm TIL about the Florida fairy shrimp, which was discovered in 1952 to be a unique species of fairy shrimp specific to a single pond in Gainesville, Florida. When researchers returned to that pond in 2011, they realized it had been filled in for development, thereby causing the species to go extinct.
wLN5o TIL Joseph Conrad, who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language, was born in Poland and did not speak English fluently until his twenties.
yQedl TIL that cashews and mangoes are in the same botanical family as poison oak and poison ivy. Mango vines and uncooked cashews contain enough urushiol oil to cause similar rashes to ivy/oak exposure.
nkdb TIL - Cracking your knuckles does not increase your chances of developing Arthritis