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TIL of Bo Gritz, a former U.S. army green beret who ran for President in the 90s, helped resolve the Ruby Ridge incident and was partially the inspiration for Hannibal from the A-Team

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KYl4B TIL "Road Rash" is an actual medical name for a type of "friction burn" that motorcyclists would commonly face.
yVWXp TIL that the Presidential transition between Truman and Eisenhower was extraordinarily acrimonious. In their car ride to the capital for the inauguration, Eisenhower wondered aloud "what SOB ordered my son back [from Korea], just to embarrass me.” Truman replied "I did."
E1Kx TIL In 1941-42, during ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the Nazi’s captured roughly 5.5 million Soviet prisoners of war resulting in one of the most concentrated mass killings in human history
DZKv TIL That in Jackass’ infancy, Saturday Night Live offered the cast to perform a weekly stunt on the show, but it was declined in favor of the standalone show
a8B40 TIL a man in 2005 successfully negotiated a series of online trades that got progressively more valuable, ending when he traded an acting role in a movie for a two-story farmhouse. The man started the series of trades with a paperclip.