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TIL There is a group called the Patriot Guard which formed to protect people from the Westboro Baptist Church.

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wgE6 TIL In 2011, NASA’s Terra satellite spotted a 150km-wide whirlpool in the S. Atlantic. It stood out because it was glowing.
PYbdL TIL that braille was originally invented by the French Army out of necessity after soldiers were being killed because they used lamps after dark to read combat messages. Soon after, Louis Braille, an eleven year old blind boy simplified it into what we use today.
9ybQ TIL that Marion Tinsley played checkers for 45 years and lost only 7 games. He once beat a computer program, and later analysis showed that Tinsley had played the only possible winning strategy from 64 moves out.
gMW9 TIL Google has a “unsupervised” neural network that learned what a cat was while searching the Internet
QJJE TIL only 12% of the World’s population lives below the equator