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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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bNkp TIL Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi who was considered to be the most powerful woman of the classical world, has had almost nothing recorded about her process because authors from the period treated it as common knowledge with no need to explain.
lopR5 TIL that a town in the U.S. applied for Soviet foreign aid to fix a bridge after being denied by the state for two years and the state finally agreed to fix the bridge after Soviet journalists showed up
N7YwJ TIL a Vietnamese man was hospitalized unconscious from consuming too much methanol alcohol; doctors transfused 15 cans of beer about 1 per hr into his body to revive him. The liver breaks down ethanol before methanol which gave doctors more time to do dialysis to remove the alcohol from his system.
BVrD TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger went AWOL from the military to compete in (and win) his first bodybuilding competition. His superiors, after reprimanding him, allotted him extra food and built him a gym, including a portable gym inside a tank, so he could train even when deployed. [12:23]
a8eE9 TIL that the orange color, strength and high sharpness of Komodo dragons' teeth are due to the high iron content in the enamel