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TIL of the Coconut Religion, which advocated only eating coconut and only drinking coconut milk

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rmY1 TIL that Sweden and Denmark have fought more wars between them than any other two nations, even beating out France and England.
loyRV TIL of the folk-punk band “This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb”. On three separate occasions, stickers for the band affixed to bicycles resulted in police evacuations and bomb squad responses.
6kbZ TIL an undercover FBI informant who infiltrated a Mosque in Irvine, Calif., stirred the pot so much to entrap other Muslims to engage in “violent jihad” that he was reported to law enforcement himself by the Mosque.
MeB0B TIL Mel Brooks served in World War II, defusing land mines as the allies advanced into Nazi Germany.
REN4 TIL the United States of America has a mystery that one writer calls “the biggest animal cold case in the nation’s history”: cattle/animal mutilations. In Kansas, for example, cattle were found with “ears, tongues, genitals and udders all neatly removed. Often, the scene was bloodless and trackless”