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TIL it’s possible to make lava, which is apparently good for roasting marshmallows

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dD9rj TIL My chemical romance started there band because of 9/11
NDl6 TIL a 30-year-old elephant named Ben sought help at a safari lodge after being shot by poachers. The elephant waited patiently near the lodge for the 6 hours it took for a vet to fly in and dress his 3 bullet wounds.
xye5 TIL that there is a belief system called Christian Atheism, where one follows the teachings of Jesus, while not believing him to be the son of God.
KOgBQ TIL That as McDonald's came to the former Communist nations of Eastern Europe, it became a point of national pride to have one, even being included in football chants to taunt those countries who didn't yet have a McDonalds.
rMO4 TIL of Demi-Lee Brennan, the first liver transplant patient to switch blood groups - at estimated odds of 6 billion to 1. The switch in blood type means the 15-year-old no longer requires life-long consumption of immunosuppressant drugs which are used to stop the body from rejecting a new organ.