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TIL that in 2021, a DC court said the FDA didn't have the authority to prevent Judge Rotenberg Educational Center from using electroshock torture against disabled children

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gwL4 TIL Tallinn, the capital of Estonia used to be named Lyndanisse, which in translation means Linda’s tits.
4XlGw TIL that the Hudson Bay Area in Canada has less gravity than the rest of the world and scientists do not know why.
LQXR9 TIL Phryne of Greece was acquitted due to her beauty, after jurors admired her naked body
Oodee TIL about the Chinese massacre of 1871 when a mob of around 500 White and Hispanic persons entered Old Chinatown in Los Angels and attacked, bullied, robbed, and murdered Chinese residents in cold blood.
0dov TIL President William McKinley always wore a red carnation on his lapel for good luck. He was assassinated in 1901 just minutes after giving it to a 12-year-old girl.