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TIL House of Pain is not actually from Boston but rather LA.

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a8j6b TIL about the Centralia "Tragedy" in 1919, when members of the American Legion stormed the local International Workers of the World Hall, resulting in multiple deaths. 7 members of the I.W.W. were later convicted of murder, and one (also a veteran) was lynched. No Legionnaire was prosecuted.
VBRep TIL in 897, the Cadaver Synod saw Pope Stephen VI dig up predecessor Pope Formosus, put his corpse on trial for crimes including perjury, and posthumously desecrate his body after a guilty verdict.
WRr9 TIL that more and more researchers are arguing that BMI is not a good measure of healthy body weight.
yVDBl TIL that Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua were briefly united in the 1800s as the Federal Republic of Central America
nWV9W TIL of 'Soul of the Earth' by Rafael Trénor--an earth sized sculpture forming the concept of a cube within the earth with the 8 corners poking out on/near land, will be the largest sculpture on earth when the final vertex is finished in Spain.