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TIL that Four out of five members of Congress continued to drink alcohol during Prohibition

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wLkO6 TIL - There's a group of bikers that come to funerals of fallen soldiers to place their bikes and themselves between grieving families and the religious nuts who protest their funerals: The Patriot Guard
wkXW TIL that in April 2011, Oklahoma passed a law allowing only the Deceased to access their own Death Certificates without a court order.
D1w9r TIL that the Lord of the Rings film trilogy brought the country of New Zealand so much attention, that the government of New Zealand has a "Minister of the Rings", who is responsible for all affairs involving the production of LOTR in New Zealand.
Kmgw TIL Kanye West once got arrested for breaking a paparazzi camera, and used his one phone call to order Chinese takeout.
Z4kD TIL of James Fallon, a neuroscientist who studies serial killers, discovered a gene making someone pre-disposed to being a serial killer, then discovered that his brain is mapped very similarly to serial killers, he has the gene, and is descended from a long line of serial killers