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TIL The German constitution allows citizens to resist government institutions that act against the constitution

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yNAV TIL beers were put in six packs after determining that they were the most weight an average housewife could comfortably carry home.
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Egd5d TIL in the 1980s, Black Sabbath manager Don Arden was quite hostile towards the band's ex-vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, who had recently married his daughter Sharon, and was fond of telling Osbourne that his children resembled the baby on the cover of the album "Born Again".
oRRbA TIL Rudolf Vrba & another man escaped from Auschwitz by noting that after prisoners went missing, searching only lasted for 3 days. They hid in a hole for 3 days outside the inner perimeter fence, & on the 4th day got away.
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