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78NkM TIL about Rollen Stewart, the "Rainbow Man" known for wearing a rainbow wig and holding "John 3:16" signs at sports games in the '70s and '80s. Eventually he started setting off stink bombs and in 1992, took a maid hostage during a protest. A prosecutor called him "a David Koresh waiting to happen".
DQLwr TIL 145 Polish pilots, representing some five percent of Fighter Command’s overall strength, claimed 203 German aircraft for the loss of 29 of their number killed in the Battle of Britain. This amounts to 15 percent of the Command’s total score
b6pop TIL Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson killed this opponent Jimy Doyle after having a dream that he killed him in the ring.
dEZE TIL Marc Gross uses Google Earth and drones to shoot elephants with Capsaicin paintballs, deterring them from poachers
E1Wbp TIL That in 1917, 7 years after Mark Twain's death, two spiritualist mediums claimed that Twain’s ghost had dictated them a new novel via Ouija Board. The novel was published, received very poor reviews and the book publisher was prosecuted by the Twain estate.