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TIL Texas USA has high school barbeque teams.

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loOxB TIL: The Eagles football fans' behavior was so bad that the City of Philadelphia assigned a Municipal Court Judge to the stadium on game days to deal with fans removed from the stands
rRPge TIL that Elton John was considered for the role of Harold in the 1971 film Harold and Maude. The director also wanted him to do the soundtrack, which ended up being composed by Cat Stevens.
v1XDL TIL Fred Phelps was a civil rights lawyer who earned recognition from the NAACP before founding the Westboro Baptist Church. He was also excommunicated from the church before his death for having a change of heart about his religious beliefs.
VMV04 TIL that in the 70s the US and Soviet baby feared the other had developed a new antisubmarine weapon that damaged wires rubber attached to probes due to deep circle holes left in the rubber, it turns out that these were in fact the bite marks of the relatively unknown cookie cutter sharks
04W5 TIL in 1974, Vietnam attacked some Chinese troops stationed on a disputed island. In response, China destroyed the entire Vietnamese fleet and took control of the entire island chain