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TIL About the day various objects were thrown by fans onto the pitch at an Asian Champions League game in Iran in 2012, including a hand grenade. Soccer player unknowingly threw it off the field just before it blew up.

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KY6jJ TIL in 2016 a group of Australian high school students made a key ingredient of the malaria medicine Daraprim (sold in the US for $US35,000 to $US110,000) for $US20
VK4k TIL that a 15-year-old did the same thing that Rosa Parks did 9 months earlier, but wasn’t iconized in part because she was too dark-skinned
N7KnN TIL that listening to metal and it's subgenres has been found to help relieve stress and decrease hostility, according to a study by the University of Queensland in 2015
KO1lE TIL there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth, but more molecules in 10 average sized drops of water, than stars in the observable universe!
kY1m TIL There is a group called the Patriot Guard which formed to protect people from the Westboro Baptist Church.