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W77rY TIL Samantha Trimble was forcibly imprisoned by a mental health clinic aiming to obtain her insurance payouts. She sued them and partially won.
GAMoJ TIL about fumi-e (meaning "stepping on a picture"), a representation of Jesus used by the Tokugawa shogunate in 17th century Japan to weed out suspected Christians. Those who hesitated or refused to step on fumi-e were tortured or killed.
kZyE TIL that 285,000 companies including Apple, Coca-Cola, GE, Google, and Walmart are officially headquartered at 1209 North Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware due to the state’s low corporate tax rates.
Z81vD TIL The DEA raided Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate in 1987. It removed the poppy plants that had been planted continually there since Jefferson was alive and using opium from them.
DlVJ TIL In 1953 US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government because Iran wanted to nationalize the petroleum reserves.