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TIL the Department of Education has a S.W.A.T team

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KYWJB TIL about snake handling, a practice where parishoners handle highly venomous snakes as a show of their faith.
K7ZB TIL Tom Petty escaped death as well as saved his wife and 5 year old daughter when an arsonist tried to set his house on fire. He later wrote “I Won’t Back Down” which was inspired by the experience.
NgkN TIL that 36% of young (16-19), Japanese males consider themselves to be “Herbivore Men,” meaning that they have no desire to ever seek out a sexual relationship with a person of either gender. The trend has had a striking impact on the Japanese birth rate.
oLoE TIL: Pocahontas and Shakespeare were alive at the same time and died only a year apart.
GAN74 TIL throat singers may travel in the countryside looking for the right geography in which to perform throat singing