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TIL in 1968, a student at UPenn announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm. Thousands turned up to protest, were handed a leaflet reading: Congratulations on your anti-napalm protest. You saved the life of a dog. Now, how about saving the lives of tens of thousands of people in Vietnam.

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8ayPL TIL that there is a procedure called "fecal transplantation". The doctor transplants feces from a healthy donor into another person to restore the balance of bacteria in their gut.
ADNMd TIL that in 1974, a German artist flew to NYC, was picked up with a stretcher and wrapped in felt and taken to an enclosed space where he spent 3 days living with a wild coyote. He was then taken back to his plane the same way, never setting foot on America.
R5jWl TIL of John "The Mad Russian" Turchin whose dishonorable discharge was changed to promotion to general after his wife spoke with President Lincoln and Secretary of War. A paper stated "in the lottery matrimonial Col. Turchin had the good fortune to draft an invaluable prize."
78BWZ TIL astatine (atomic number 85) is the rarest naturally occurring element. The total amount of astatine in the Earth's crust is estimated by some scientists to be less than one gram at any given time.
E1LQW TIL about the League of Militant Atheists, an atheistic and antireligious organization of workers and intelligentsia that developed in Soviet Russia. The League aimed at exterminating religion in all its manifestations and forming an anti-religious scientific mindset among the workers.