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TIL Florida outlawed recreational dwarf tossing in 1989.
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TIL Bill Belichick, NE Patriots coach, is the only present day coach not in the Madden games because he is not a member of the Coaches Association which licenses the game.
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TIL of Dr. Sharad Dicksheet; he founded The India Project in 1968. Until his death in 2011 he traveled to India each year to perform surgeries on children. To date, The India Project has performed more than 98,000 free corrective surgeries for children and infants who suffer from facial deformities.
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TIL there is another photo, taken at a different angle, of the same famous Victory Day kiss in Times Square; unlike the original, the other photograph was taken by a government photojournalist on official duty, and is thus in the public domain and not protected by copyright.
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TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated when high levels of dioxin were discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.
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TIL the etymology of the word “humiliation” has a universal characteristic in the sense that in all languages the word involves “downward spatial orientation” in which “something or someone is pushed down and forcefully held there."