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TIL that a Steam Engine Train brought down a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 during WWII

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AdGn TIL that Florida police stopped a man 258 times and charged him 62 times with trespassing at his place of employment; he sued the Florida police for violating his civil rights and lost.
VMbop TIL Body dysmorphic disorder, occasionally still called dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body part or appearance is severely flawed and therefore warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix it
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Yp9bW TIL the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was built as a memorial to WW1 veterans in 1923 and will be the first stadium to host 3 different Olympics games.
neQo7 TIL in the Middle Ages there was a belief animals understood the concept of morality and possessed rationality. They were summoned to court, put on trial for a variety of offenses, and given the same punishments as humans. Lawyers defended pigs, rats, and sheep. Even flies and slugs faced judgement.