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TIL Ikea used East German political prisoners as slave labor

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nQe9 TIL in 2004, a welder demolished several buildings in his town with his own modified bulldozer to fight against a zoning dispute
GAxlg TIL that every state has a Law Library that you can call to get resources regarding legal forms or state policies, and they are open to the public if you'd like to research legal matters (disclaimer: Law librarians are not lawyers)
YpbxG TIL that Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen's left arm was amputated in 1984 after he was involved in a car crash. He continues to play with one arm and was named one of the top 10 drummers of all time by Gigwise.
LZ40 TIL that the concept and word “trinity” is nowhere to be found in the Bible and was developed by church fathers in the 4th and 5th centuries
epBaE TIL while in Harvard University, Dale Maple was removed from the German Club for singing the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" and was dismissed from ROTC for praising dictatorship. During WW2, he helped German POWs to escape, was sentenced to hang and was commuted to 10 years