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TIL about Ligertown, an incident in Idaho where about 50 sheriff’s deputies, SWAT teams, Fish and Game officers and Idaho State troopers killed 15 lions whose escape from a chicken wire-enclosed game compound for lions, tigers and crossbred "ligers″ forced parents to keep their children indoors.

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5Y979 TIL in 1894, in the city of Passau, Germany, a local priest saved a four year old boy from drowning when he fell through the ice on a frozen river. According to many reports, historians, and locals from the time, that child was Adolf Hitler.
XEj6P TIL that the full-size Krackel bar was discontinued in 1997, despite being available as a Hershey Miniature.
4NWw TIL J.R.R. Tolkien and Hitler fought against one another during one of the biggest battles in the First World War, the Battle of Somme.
EKa7 TIL that 80% of the population of Czech Republic is non-religious or undeclared
4ZPg TIL in 1990 an unemployed Frenchman, André Gardes, attempted to annex the tiny British island of Sark with a semi-automatic rifle. When a member of the local constabulary complimented his weapon Gardes showed him the rifle, the constable took it and arrested him.