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TIL in 2010 a Kentucky man was beaten and forced at gunpoint to eat his own beard during a dispute over the price of a used riding lawnmower.

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D49Y TIL that there’s a rare genetic disorder that causes those afflicted to have an ‘elfin appearance’ and 'an unusually cheerful demeanor’.
yjba TIL that in 2012 Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a law making it okay to use deadly force against any public servants, including cops, who unlawfully enter your residence
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