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TIL that when Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi ordered an assault on the most holy Sikh temple, security services removed Sikhs from her bodyguards, including one of her favorite guards. She promptly reinstated him, and a few months later he assassinated her.

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awKXZ TIL that animals in heraldry are sometimes shown "pizzled", i.e. with a prominent penis. It was often considered very important for the animal in the local herald to be pizzled - when a Swiss printer forgot a pizzle on the bear in the Appenzell canton's herald in 1579, it almost led to war.
7aZp TIL The colder your beer, the less you can taste it. The main reason Coors wants theirs to be ‘ice cold’.
9wW0B TIL not only were soldiers banned from entering ancient Rome, weapons were banned from the inner city borders as well
mG8v TIL That Its A Lot Cheaper To House and Feed the Homeless Than To Leave Them On the Street
6Er8w TIL: In Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger (The show that was the basis for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) that Bandora (Rita Repulsa) is a Satan worshiping witch who sacrifices children because a dinosaur killed her child