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TIL: That a German woman was executed during WW2 for telling a joke about Hitler

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ZnNv TIL a Seattle man won a $500K lawsuit against his neighbor, whose dog he accused of “raucously, wildly bellowing, howling and explosively barking.” The defendant thought it was a joke and didn’t show up.
GAgRG TIL in 2016, a thunderstorm in Norway instantly killed over 300 reindeer
8exoK TIL that after Winter War out of 5,572 soviet prisoners of war returned from Finland 4,354 were sentenced to imprisonment in labor camps and 232 executed
b6JO4 TIL When Jane Elizabeth Manning James, an early black Mormon (LDS Church) member, died in 1908, then Church President Joseph Smith spoke at her funeral, where he declared that she would receive all her temple blessings in the eternities and become a "white and beautiful person."
R7vr7 TIL about Almon Brown Strowger. Strowger's undertaking business was losing clients to a competitor whose telephone-operator wife was redirecting everyone who called for Strowger. Motivated to remove the intermediary operator, he invented the first automatic telephone exchange in 1889.