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TIL That in May of 2011, the KKK showed up at a funeral the Westboro Baptist Church was protesting. The KKK protested against the WBC, saying, “It’s the soldier that fought and died and gave them that right to free speech.”

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dD0Wr TIL: Spider from School Of Rock (Lucas Babin) is now District Attorney of Tyler County, Texas
9YZKD TIL Francisco Franco is credited with saving between 30,000 and 60,000 Jews during the nazi era. He is also thought to have been responsible for killing between 15,000 and 50,000 of his political opponents.
wmKo TIL a city in Wales installed pink LEDs to deter teenage loitering because it highlighted their acne
6oYJ TIL Evangeline Lilly was promised there would be no love triangle in The Hobbit, her one stipulation for accepting the role. A year later the actors were called back for reshoots, with a love triangle added in.
l4QK TIL of the My Lai Massacre, where a company of American soldiers killed over 500 civilians of My Lai on March 16, 1968. The incident was covered up for over a year and only one man was convicted.