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TIL that in 2005 the FBI spent two years chasing down leaders of “God Hates Goths” church before realizing the whole thing was a parody

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aRBL TIL Billy Nye has a restraining order on his ex wife because she sprayed herbicide on the plants in his garden.
60QQ TIL that during his Illinois senatorial campaign, Lincoln claimed he didn’t believe in racial equality between blacks and whites of any kind.
MPyb TIL a Roman soldier who survived the three of Rome’s greatest defeats at Ticinus, Trasimene, and Cannae would go on to lead the army that defeated Hannibal. We know him as Scipio Africanus.
YB5x TIL that gangs of dolphins are know to stalk and brutally kill porpoises. For absolutely no reason at all.
rrPy TIL During the battle of Stalingrad, Mikhail Panikakha had only two Molotov cocktails left after helping repel German attacks. He raised the one to throw when a bullet hit it, setting him on fire. He then took the last bottle, jumped out of the trench and hit the nearest German tank with it.