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TIL that Vermont ambulances stock maple syrup for 'oral glucose' administration.

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M77rK TIL Kate Bush wrote the song 'The Man with the Child in His Eyes' when she was 13, and recorded it at age 16
R7Qg1 TIL of the SWAT World Challenge, where SWAT teams and special forces compete in armed drills. Since 2007, the second place all time score belongs to the US Office of Secure Transportation, the agency for guarding America's nukes. But beating them is Ocean Country NJ's SWAT team.
b9a6Q TIL soccer was a popular and successful sport in the US up until the 1930s. However a series of disputes between rival leagues and FIFA (called the Soccer Wars) , and the onset of the Great Depression led to a massive decline in the popularity of the sport.
6RDQ TIL When Canadian Prime Minster Lester B. Pearson Came To Philadelphia To Speak Against The Vietnam War, Before He Could Finish His Speech President Lyndon B. Johnson summoned him to Camp David, Maryland where he grabbed him and said “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”
4oGR TIL that some autism patients excrete the same toxin in their urine that hallucinogenic toads have on their skin