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TIL that Fyodor Dostoevsky was once mock executed and that he processed the event in his novel „The idiot“

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8LGZ TIL that from 1985-2005, LAPD shot at more than 465 dogs, killing at least 200 and wounding at least 140. From 1990-2005, NYPD officers officers had shot at 803 dogs.
Q1Ke TIL Tennis champion Rafael Nadal would run home after school to watch his favourite TV show, Dragon Ball.
kJrZd TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.
knR5 TIL a butt-load is 120 gallons
o0Or TIL the company who made Clash of Clans is worth more than Evernote, Eventbrite and Buzzfeed combined, and generated $2.3 billion in revenue in 2015.