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TIL - The American Family Association (One Million Moms) is recognized as an active hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center

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ev0n TIL a French convict used oranges painted like grenades to escape prison via a helicopter piloted by his wife who took flight lessons solely for the escape.
ARL4 TIL of Maximilian Kolbe, a priest in Auschwitz who volunteered to die in the place of a stranger who cried out “My wife! My children!”. In the gas chamber, he kept all the others sentenced to death calm and was the last one to die.
Gp1Q TIL Danny McBride was offered a minor league baseball contract because of his role as Kenny Powers
xljB TIL The first music video to be shot entirely with mobile phones was “Some Postman” by The Presidents of the United States of America
NXY9M TIL that the picture “The Scream” by Edvard Munch does not depict a person screaming, but rather someone reacting to hearing a scream.