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TIL the same castle in Scotland was used as Winterfell and throughout Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Zpwpo TIL about Larry Hoover, a gang leader of CBGD, or Chicago's Black Gangster Disciples Nation. After being sent to prison, he was inspired by the biography of Richard J. Daley and decided to change his gangs GD to Growth and Development, and forced his army learn to better their community instead.
Wk9Bd TIL that in 2008, after receiving an email from Steve-O suggesting his possible suicide, Johnny Knoxville and other friends placed Steve-O on an involuntary 72-hour psychiatric hold, which was later lengthened to 14 days after an apparent suicide attempt.
yK8v TIL that during World War I, the Russian and German armies were repeatedly attacked by starving wolves. It became such a problem that the two armies negotiated a temporary truce and worked together to kill several hundred wolves
Brj5K TIL of the town Metaline WA whose townfolks blocked and protected the Kubota, a Japanese-American family, in 1942 from resettlement by vouching for their loyalty.
bAZN TIL : In the 1821 Greek War of Independence, the Ottoman Turks ran out of bullets and started to strip the columns of the Parthenon for lead. When the Greeks got wind of this, they gathered up their bullets and sent them to the Turks to use against themselves to protect their ancient heritage.