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TIL David Eckert sued his local police force for $1.6 million after being forced to undergo “multiple digital penetrations and 3 enemas” on an invalad warrant and without finding the drugs they were looking for.

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XEjER TIL Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse is the only British soldier to receive the Victoria Cross twice during WWI. Both times were for actions he committed while being wounded and under fire.
VBl60 TIL stars larger than the sun fuse elements in a cycle where carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms act as catalysts transforming into each other continuously. After a full cycle, the net result is 4 hydrogen atoms consumed and 1 helium atom released along with energy, at which point the cycle repeats.
b9L9N TIL that stomach growling is called 'Borborygmi'
oBEr8 TIL sweden nationalized their banks after their subprime recession.
XEYJE TIL about the plan of a German man in the 1920s to drain some of the Mediterranean sea in order to merge Africa with Europe.